geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (10/15/90)
Quoth sjc@hao.ucar.edu (Steve Cariglia) (in <8781@ncar.ucar.edu>): #What rpc daemon's does a server require in order to answer an nfsping #successfully? My pc is running version 3.0.1 pc-nfs and the server I am trying #to nfsping is running sunos 4.0.3 (the machine is a sun4). NFSPING issues a null RPC call to the mount daemon on the target system. Therefore you should get a reply if the system is an NFS server. (Most systems only start the mount daemon if /etc/exports is present.) NFSPING is actually a wrapper for "rpcinfo -u <target> <mountprog>" Geoff -- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) -- *** "Now is no time to speculate or hypothecate, but rather a time *** *** for action, or at least not a time to rule it out, though not *** *** necessarily a time to rule it in, either." - George Bush ***
danielce@ecr.mu.oz.au (Daniel Ake Massimo Paolo Carosone) (10/18/90)
In article <2919@jaytee.East.Sun.COM>, geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) writes: > NFSPING issues a null RPC call to the mount daemon on the target > system. Therefore you should get a reply if the system is an NFS > server. (Most systems only start the mount daemon if /etc/exports > is present.) NFSPING is actually a wrapper for > "rpcinfo -u <target> <mountprog>" Ah! This explains why a PC cannot NFSPING itself! This caused a great deal of confusion and mess originally..