NFS client: Solaris 8
NFS server: RHEL 7.3 - a virtual machine originally hosted on HyperView, recently migrated to VMWare.
NFS used to work well in the previous configuration. With the virtual Linux host moved onto the new platform, any mount attempt on the Solaris NFS client now yields:
nfs mount: (hostname): : RPC: Rpcbind failure - RPC: Unable to receive
nfs mount: retrying: /(filesystem)where hostname is the Linux NFS server host name.
On the NFS server:
Exportfs shows the correctly exported/shared file systems.
The following processes are running, maybe some daemon is missing. I have selected the processes I thought relevant (those containing "nfs" or "rpc"):
root 1888 2 0 Aug28 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd4_callbacks]
root 1922 2 0 Aug28 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 1925 2 0 Aug28 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 1926 2 0 Aug28 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 1928 2 0 Aug28 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 1931 2 0 Aug28 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 1932 2 0 Aug28 ? 00:00:00 [nfsd]
root 1934 2 0 Aug28 ? 00:01:21 [nfsd]
root 1937 2 0 Aug28 ? 00:13:21 [nfsd]
root 4617 2 0 Aug28 ? 00:00:00 [nfsiod]
root 973 1 0 Aug28 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.idmapd
rpcuser 1357 1 0 Aug28 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.statd --no-notify
root 1638 1 0 Aug28 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
The Linux machine has been moved over as is. No configuration items were ever touched. I don't know whether changing the hosting platform can be relevant to the virtual machine's rpc functionality.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Edited to add: there is no rpc.nfsd process currently running.
1 Answer
Solved it - it works!
Indeed, some daemons were missing. After some digging, I found that these services are not automatically started upon boot:
systemctl start rpcbind
systemctl start nfs-lock
systemctl enable nfs-lock
