John Jason Jordan wrote: > My laptop has a share for /media so that my desktop can access a USB > drive external to the laptop. Sometimes it just works, more often it > requires considerable swearing to get it to work. This evening I have > exhausted my store of expletives in one language and am starting on > another language. > > The laptop us Xubuntu 14.04.1 and the desktop is Xubuntu 12.04. > > If I try to mount the share on the desktop at the command line the > command just hangs forever. No error messages; it just fails to do > anything. If I try to umount it I get the dreaded "device is busy." > > Does anyone have any suggestions? Does anyone know why NFS is such a > PITA? > John,
Sometimes the portmap daemon stops running or is not started for unknown reasons. NFS uses this portmap daemon. See if it is running. Ken _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
