Problems with Automount

[Jason Morgan]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 12:36:23PM +0400, Daniel Sammut wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 20:24 +0000,
> > freebsd-questions-request at freebsd.org wrote: 
> > 
> > > On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 05:01:40PM +0400, Daniel Sammut wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > I am fairly new to FreeBSD having only used it for about a month. I am
> > > > using FreeBSD 5.4 release.
> > > > 
> > > > I have recently got round to setting up amd. I followed the instructions
> > > > to do this on a website I found -
> > > > http://renaud.waldura.com/doc/freebsd/automounting.txt
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > After following the instructions, and rebooting the machine, I notice
> > > > that my logs give these messages:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > nfs send error 49 for server pid357 at freya:/host
> > > > nfs server pid357 at freya:/host: not responding
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > and typing "amq" gives this message:
> > > > 
> > > > amq: localhost: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to send
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I double checked my setup of amd, and that I followed the instructions
> > > > exactly. Everything seems correct. 
> > > > 
> > > > I have actually set up amd successfully using the same instructions on
> > > > another computer on which I installed FreeBSD 5.4. 
> > > > 
> > > > What do you think the problem could be?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Are your trying to automount an NFS server? Are you sure you have /etc/exports
> > > set up correctly on the NFS server to allow access from the client in question?
> > > 
> > > -Jason
> > > 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Jason,
> 
> No, I am not trying to automount an NFS server. I am only trying to
> automount the cdrom and floppy drives. 
> 
> I have successfully set up NFS between the problem computer (server) and
> a laptop. I did have problems setting up NFS as I had to manually start
> nfsd despite having nfs_server_enable="YES" in my rc.config In the end I
> had to insert the line nfsd_enable="YES" in rc.config which I thought
> was strange as this is not documented anywhere else. Using this method,
> nfs works but amd does not despite following the howto mentioned in the
> link in my previous post.
> 
> This computer is a family machine so I need to make it as simple as
> possible to use, hence the need for amd!
> 
> Any help would be very gratefully received.

Did you manage to get this solved?

-Jason