In article <C125679A.00444114.00@mz02world.hq.dtr.gecalsthom.fr>,
 <derry.birse@ind.alstom.com> wrote:
>will not mount the Linux partition on the Sun3 and says
>
>portmap: RPC program not registered
>
>One thing which I have noticed is that the Linux box has an entry for mount in
>/etc/services using port 635 and rpcinfo gives the following on this machine.
>
>   program vers proto   port
>    100000    2   tcp    111  rpcbind
>    100000    2   udp    111  rpcbind
>    100005    1   udp    635  mountd
>    100005    2   udp    635  mountd
>    100005    1   tcp    635  mountd
>    100005    2   tcp    635  mountd
>    100003    2   udp   2049  nfs
>    100003    2   tcp   2049  nfs
>
>However on the Sun3/NetBSD machine there is no entry for mount in /etc/services
>and the use of the rpcinfo command on this machine gives an entirely different
>port number. Could this be the problem? Putting an entry for mount in
>/etc/services does not seem to change anything. Is the port number fixed in the
>mountd code on NetBSD?

Did you restart the rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd on linux? Apparently making
changes in exports does not affect them.

christos