Solaris Troubleshooting NFS : error “NFS mount fails with RPC: Program not registered”

The rpc.mountd and nfsd daemons may not be running on the NFS server attempting the mount. Log in to the server that you are trying to mount from. Follow one of the two procedures below:

You must edit the file /etc/dfs/dfstab in order to make files automatically export on a Solaris system. The standard syntax in that file is:

share -F nfs partition

For example, the following /etc/dfs/dfstab file is for a server that makes available the filesystems /usr, /var/spool/mail and /home:

share -F nfs /usr

share -F nfs /var/spool/mail

share -F nfs /home

You may add normal mount options to these lines, such as ro, rw and root. this is done by preceding the options with a -o flag. These options are fully described in the share man page. The following  example shows our /etc/dfs/dfstab file, but this time with the filesystems all being exported read only:

share -F nfs -o ro /usr

share -F nfs -o ro /var/spool/mail

share -F nfs -o ro /home

If your machine is already exporting filesystems, and you are adding a new one, you should simply run the shareall command to make this new filesystem available:

% shareall

If you have never exported filesystems from this machine before, you need to run the nfs.server script:

% /etc/init.d/nfs.server start