newbie question about nfs and services

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I'm having a problem with services. I've never started nfs without typing service nfs start. I guess I cant do this in knoppix since it doesnt know what service is.

How do I go about starting services?

[arkaine23]

/etc/init.d/nfs start

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ok well I have two things similar to nfs.. its /etc/init.d/nfs-common and /etc/init.d/nfs-kernal-server I've tried both of them and adding my directoy to exports like this. /nfsdir *(ro) so that i allow all to connect read only. And when I try to mount from the same computer I get the error mount: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused. I guess nfs isnt really running.

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I also ran nmap to see if the port for nfs was open and it wasnt... so I guess neither of those two started nfs