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Re: nfsd and mountd


On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 10:55:16AM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote:
>> Hello Sam,
>> 
>> I download your packages. Thanks for working on this!
>
>Thanks for testing :-)
>
>> I have the following remarks:
>> 
>> - There is a packaging error. the .README files extract into 
>> in /doc instead of /usr/doc.
>
>Fixed.
> 
>>   - I get the error message
>>     Cannot get NFS port from portmap server at p3129.ecn.nl: 
>> RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out.
>
>I see from your later message you tried starting the portmapper
>service.  Did you add the "-F" option to keep it from forking?
> 
>>Maybe you could supply a working example in the .README files, one for
>>WIN9X and one for WIN2K/NT
>
>I really need to do this.  With the holidays coming up, I should have
>time to do so.  Unfortunately, I only have NT-based systems (NT4, W2K,
>XP) available for testing; any suggestions on how to document things
>for a WIN9X system (or any other system) would be very welcome.

I'd say lets not hold up the release for this.  I think these are cool
packages.  If we're just missing examples, then get whatever examples
you can into the README and "we" can make another release with better
examples as we learn more.

cgf


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