Starting the NFS Daemons

The rpcbind daemon must be running to handle conversion of RPC calls, the mountd daemon listens for remote mount requests from other systems and the nfsd daemon provides remote NFS services to NFS client systems.

1. Make sure that /sbin is visible from the target system:

   host% rsh target ls /sbin

   If you have not yet mounted a root file system, such as host:build_dir/root, see "File System Commands".

2. Run the rpcbind daemon:

   host% rsh target sbin/rpcbind

3. Run the mountd daemon:

   host% rsh target sbin/mountd

4. Run the nfsd daemon:

   host% rsh target sbin/nfsd -ut -n 3

   The above command creates three servers for TCP and UDP clients.

5. Check that NFS is one of the TCP/UPD services available from the target. On a host workstation running the Solaris operating environment, the following example displays the registered RPC services available on the target:

   host% /sbin/rpcinfo -p target