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Operating Systems Solaris Rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Authentication error; why = Failed (unspecified error) Post 302820463 by christr on Wednesday 12th of June 2013 05:30:21 PM
Old 06-12-2013
Rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Authentication error; why = Failed (unspecified error)

I have two servers with a fresh install of Solaris 11, and having problems when doing rpcinfo between them. There is no firewall involved, so everything should theoretically be getting through. Does anyone have any ideas? I did a lot of Google searches, and haven't found a working solution yet.

Code:
server1$ rpcinfo -p server2
rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Authentication error; why = Failed (unspecified error)

Code:
# svcs -a | grep rpc
disabled       May_20   svc:/network/rpc/keyserv:default
disabled       May_20   svc:/network/rpc/rstat:default
disabled       May_20   svc:/network/rpc/rex:default
disabled       May_20   svc:/network/rpc/wall:default
disabled       May_20   svc:/network/rpc/rusers:default
disabled       May_20   svc:/network/rpc/spray:default
online         May_20   svc:/network/rpc/bind:default
online         May_20   svc:/network/rpc/gss:default
online         May_20   svc:/network/rpc/smserver:default

 

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RPCINFO(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						RPCINFO(8)

NAME
rpcinfo -- report RPC information SYNOPSIS
rpcinfo -p [host] rpcinfo [-n portnum] -u host program [version] rpcinfo [-n portnum] -t host program [version] rpcinfo -b program version rpcinfo -d program version DESCRIPTION
rpcinfo makes an RPC call to an RPC server and reports what it finds. OPTIONS
-p Probe the portmapper on host, and print a list of all registered RPC programs. If host is not specified, it defaults to the value returned by hostname(1). -u Make an RPC call to procedure 0 of program on the specified host using UDP, and report whether a response was received. -t Make an RPC call to procedure 0 of program on the specified host using TCP, and report whether a response was received. -n Use portnum as the port number for the -t and -u options instead of the port number given by the portmapper. -b Make an RPC broadcast to procedure 0 of the specified program and version using UDP and report all hosts that respond. -d Delete registration for the RPC service of the specified program and version. This option can be exercised only by the super-user. The program argument can be either a name or a number. If a version is specified, rpcinfo attempts to call that version of the specified program. Otherwise, rpcinfo attempts to find all the reg- istered version numbers for the specified program by calling version 0 (which is presumed not to exist; if it does exist, rpcinfo attempts to obtain this information by calling an extremely high version number instead) and attempts to call each registered version. Note: the version number is required for -b and -d options. EXAMPLES
To show all of the RPC services registered on the local machine use: example% rpcinfo -p To show all of the RPC services registered on the machine named klaxon use: example% rpcinfo -p klaxon To show all machines on the local net that are running the Yellow Pages service use: example% rpcinfo -b ypserv 'version' | uniq where 'version' is the current Yellow Pages version obtained from the results of the -p switch above. To delete the registration for version 1 of the walld service use: example% rpcinfo -d walld 1 SEE ALSO
rpc(5), portmap(8) RPC Programming Guide. BUGS
In releases prior to SunOS 3.0, the Network File System (NFS) did not register itself with the portmapper; rpcinfo cannot be used to make RPC calls to the NFS server on hosts running such releases. BSD
December 17, 1987 BSD
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