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From: ramani@jhunix (Ramani Duraiswami)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Getting NFS/ethernet up on the MIPS RC3240
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Date: 17 Sep 90 11:32:55 GMT
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A naive question for the MIPS gurus on the net (forgive me if it is
too simple -- I am only a mechanical engineer).

I am trying to get NFS working on our MIPS RC3240 and a MIPS 19" color
workstation. Thin wire ethernet has been installed, The ethernet works
fine between PCs (so I think it is up and running).

Looking through the manual, the procedure, I  think, one needs to
follow to get this beast running is

1) Check if the NFS daemons are running.
2) Assign host names and valid numbers in /etc/hosts
3) Add file systems to be exported to the /etc/fstab file 
4) Issue the 'mount' command which creates the mtab file.
5) DO the same on all machines on the network.
6) Reboot the system.

Well I did this and the thing doesn't seem to work. 

Questions:
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1) Does the above sequence of actions make sense?	

2) What should I do next (other than RTFM)?

ANY help will be appreciated.

Thank you
Ramani 
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