Thanks to all, I knew that I was doing something dumb I forgot the share I had everything mounted by the time this got posted, below are the replies thank everyone for the input. original post: >I am making some type of dumb mistake, please someone tell me what it is. I am trying to mount a cdrom from server A onto server B using this command while on server B: > >mount -F ufs -o rw A:/cdrom /cdrom > >the response that I get is: > >RPC: Program not registered >nfs mount: retrying: /cdrom > >What am I missing. replies: add a share line in /etc/dfs/dfstab /etc/init.d/nfs.server start You have to have the cdrom share'd from System A to allow system B to access it and then nfs mount the share from system B On A share /cdrom On B mount -F nfs -r A:/cdrom /cdrom Peter --------------------------------- Peter Stokes Ashlyn Computer Services Ltd I knew that it was something dumb, thanks to everyone for the advise. Dottie Weaver _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.aspReceived on Wed Aug 1 13:39:44 2001
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