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From: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson))
Subject: Re: More fun with NFS
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.172026.5666@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
References: <9104161938.AA17305@tea-jwm.jhuapl.edu>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 17:20:26 GMT

In article <9104161938.AA17305@tea-jwm.jhuapl.edu> jwm@SUN4.JHUAPL.EDU (James W. Meritt) writes:
>I'm trying to mount the Sun onto the DSP3500 but:
>mount: nfsmount returned in error

Two possibilities, the first being by far most likely:

1) you must tell mountd to use the '-n' option in sun4:/usr/etc/inetd.conf
since Apollo NFS can not use privileged ports.

2) the mount point already exists on the Apollo (I think the error
message is different for this though).
-- 
Mike Peterson, System Administrator, U/Toronto Department of Chemistry
E-mail: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
Tel: (416) 978-7094                  Fax: (416) 978-8775