[Gllug] Why can't I mount a hidden /.evolution directory through NFS?

[James Hawtin]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:52:36AM +0100, M.Blackmore wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 21:31 +0100, M.Blackmore wrote:
> > I want to mount my .evolution directory to my (utterly ancient) laptop
> > from my desktop so I can escape the desk and it isn't mounting it.
> > Mounts all the other nfs shares fine for shared data access.
> 
> The error message on running mount -a on the laptop is:
> 
> mount.nfs: mount to NFS server '192.168.0.7:/home/malcolm/' failed: RPC
> Error: Program not registered
> 
> Huh?

normally this means a program called portmap is not running, rpc programs
like nfs register with it.

ok this is from centos so you might have this slightly different, 
your need the following things running.

portmap,
nfs,
nfslock / lockd

If you have them in your rc.d but nfsd is not starting at boot time that
could be because you don't have a /etc/exports file setup.

Only thing to remember nfs unlike samba exports filesystems, not the whole
directory structure of mounts. Which allows you an interesting way to "hide"
data, export a filesystem and hide it under a mountpoint like /tmp or /usr
:-)

James
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