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Bug 225154

Summary: NFSv4 shouldn't need portmap service
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Ramon Acedo <racedo>
Component: nfs-utilsAssignee: Jeff Layton <jlayton>
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Description Ramon Acedo 2007-01-29 14:46:10 UTC 
Description of problem:

According to our reference manual nfs4 doesn't need any more the
portmapper:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/ref-
guide/ch-nfs.html#S1-NFS-HOW

But if the portmapper is not started in the client the NFS share cannot be mounted. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

RHEL4U4 (nfs-utils-1.0.6-70.EL4) and RHEL5

Steps to Reproduce:

Server:

# cat /etc/exports
/home/samba       dhcp-0-178(rw,fsid=0,insecure)

Client with portmapper:

# mount -t nfs4 racedo:/ /mnt/ && echo $?
0

Client without portmapper:

# mount -t nfs4 racedo:/ /mnt/ 

takes forever... and in the logs:

Dec 23 08:36:09 dhcp-0-178 kernel: portmap: server localhost not
responding, timed out
Dec 23 08:36:09 dhcp-0-178 kernel: RPC: failed to contact portmap (errno
-5)
Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2007-03-21 22:25:29 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.
Comment 3 Jeff Layton 2007-05-09 00:35:51 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 227602 ***