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From: taylor@Think.COM (David Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: NFS mount protocol and mount.x
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Date: 29 Oct 89 00:03:06 GMT
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If an NFS mount daemon uses the mount.x file distributed with SunRPC 3.9
or 4.0 or the file /usr/include/rpcsvc/mount.x on a Sun (running SunOS
4.0.x) [all of which are similar but slightly different], then:

	showmount -e hostname

from another host prints a message saying something like:

	showmount: can't decode rpc message

After exploring this a bit I've come to the conclusion that the mount
protocol documented in the mount.x and nfs.rfc.ms files is not the mount
protocol that is actually implemented by SunOS 4.0.x and by Ultrix 3.1.

So, does anyone have a mount.x file that corresponds to the actual,
implemented, protocol?  Or a description of the protocol?

David
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David Taylor
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