nfs server fails to start

[Bill Rees]

J. K. Cliburn wrote:
> On 4/5/06, Bill Rees <breeze at smsonline.com> wrote:
>   
>> Ok,
>>     I'm clueless.  I had nfs sharing and mounting working when running
>> fc2 but now that fc4 is the os, I'm getting "FATAL: unable to load
>> sunrpc" messages which is how starting up nfs fails for me.  The daemon
>> starts but the mapper doesn't.  And while I'm at it, trying to build a
>> kernel with this module built in is non-trivial for me as well.
>>
>>     So the big question is, what do I do to be able to share a directory
>> from one machine to the whole world and then mount it from another
>> machine (without the permission denied messages) without specifiying a
>> particular user or machine?  In my situation, I've got diskless clients
>> that need to mount from a well known server, but the clients have random
>> names.
>>     
>
> I'm on FC5 now, with no NFS problems at all.  Perhaps this link would
> help.  http://www.brennan.id.au/19-Network_File_System.html
>
> There may well be other guides, too, but this one showed up when I
> searched fedoraforum.org.
>
>   
Thank you very much, I couldn't find it.  I found other guides off of 
google, but none of them were as complete as this one , or as well written.