[techtalk] mount: RPC: Program not registered message

[Melissa Plunkett]

Davida Schiff wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have 2 PC's running RH 6.1 hooked to our network. Yesterday both were able
> to mount a (NFS) server named Mango. Today after a reboot the NFS automount
> fails. Also I can't manually mount it with the following command: mount
> /mnt/mango when I do I get this message...  mount: RPC: Program not
> registered  I have not changed anything in /etc/fstab nor added or removed
> any services. I can ping, ftp and ssh into mango without problem, so I know
> I am connected to the network. Any idea's as to why I can't mount would be
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Davida

Hum, Have you checked to make sure that all the correct daemons are
running?
I looked the daemon names up to be sure (still learning everything as we
all are) 
they are nfsd and mountd, they have to be registered w/ the portmapper,
i.e. rpc.portmap.  The error you are getting means that mount was not
registered w/ portmapper so either, it wasn't started at all or was
started
before the portmapper and hence wasn't registered.  I think that just 
might be it.  For more info see the The Network Administrators' Guide at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/nag/node1.html

Hope that helps,
Melissa