Thanks Craig, Russell and Trent for the responses.
> you can use rpcinfo to find out what versions of NFS are available on
> your NAS.
>
>      rpcinfo -u YOUR-NAS-SERVER-IP nfs
>
> e.g. you'd see something like this:
>
> # rpcinfo -u localhost nfs
> program 100003 version 2 ready and waiting
> program 100003 version 3 ready and waiting
> program 100003 version 4 ready and waiting
This is exactly what I got
>
> if nfs v4 is available, then changing to it is probably as simple as
> unmounting the NFS mount, editing /etc/fstab to change 'nfs' to 'nfs4'
> and then remounting the share.
>
> NOTE HOWEVER, that this may not fix the problem....but it's worth a try
> if anything else needs to lock files on the NFS server, and especially
> if it's shared with multiple simultaneous users.
>
Using nfs4 is the fstab entry didn't work - the share wasn't mounted.

> it links to another post on ubuntuforums.org, which suggests either a) 
> mounting the NFS share with the 'nolock' option, to disable locking

The 'nolock' solution works perfectly for me.  I can now access documents OK

Thanks again

Bob


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