Answers to: what is RPC error program not registered error while mounting NFS on boot can't mount at boot

Answer by jason

jason — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:55:33 -0500

Make sure you have the right IP addresss inside /etc/hosts.allow , otherwise you will get this error when trying to access your NFS folder from another computer...

Example:

portmap mountd nfsd statd lockd rquotad : 192.168.1.*

Comment by rfelsburg on Sanil's question

rfelsburg — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:57:12 -0400

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Answer by codebunny

codebunny — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:08:05 -0400

For NFS to run, you need to have the RPC daemons running. The two required daemons are rpc.portmap and rpc.statd. These are normally started at bootup time. If these are not running, you will not be able to mount NFS partitions. So you need to start them.

In Slackware, as root, you would go to /etc/rc.d and make rc.rpc executable and then

/etc/rc.d/rc.rpc start

In other distributions, you would look in your startup services, and turn on the RPC daemons, and then start them. Once your system has the RPC daemons running, then you will be about to mount your NFS partition.