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From: jwm@SUN4.JHUAPL.EDU (James W. Meritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: More fun with NFS
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Date: 17 Apr 91 19:13:58 GMT
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Mike Peterson 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.

mountd doesn't have the -n option, nor is there a sun4:/usr/etc/inetd.conf
file (3.5 OS)  Does this mean the sun will not mount on the apollo?  I've
got the apollo mounted on the sun...

>2) the mount point already exists on the Apollo (I think the error
>message is different for this though).

Such is not the case.

I'm wide-open for hints...

Jim