RPC: Port mapper failure PROBLEMS

From: Jimmy Gibson <jimmy.gibson_at_unn.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 97 14:23:14 +0100

HELLO ALL,

I have two Alpha servers running DEC Unix 4.0, these are called lion and
cheetah.

Cheetah holds the users file space and this is NFS mounted by lion. Everything
has been fine for about 2 years now and this morning lion will not mount the
users file system from cheetah, I just get the error message

        NFS Portmap: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to send

I have changed nothing on either systems.

/etc/fstab on lion reads

        /usr/users_at_cheetah /usr/users nfs rw,bg 0 0

/etc/exports on cheetah reads

        /usr/users -root=0 lion (plus other hosts)

I have tried rebooting and switching bothe systems on and off without change.

lion can ping cheetah and cheetah can ping lion

portmap, nfs, and nfsiod all appear to be running OK

Has anyon any idea what is wrong or what else I can check

Thanks in advance

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