Oops sorry must have replied all to the wrong one sorry about that :( And yes it seems it was a portmap issue ;)
> This one time, at band camp, cmyers wrote: >>Just a quick question, I have read many faqs about why an NFS share >>would take forever to mount and they all suggest that there is a dns >>problem when so i use the IP to avoid the possibility of that problem. > > Whenever I have a NFS share taking ages to mount it's almost always > because > the client machine isn't running one of portmap, nfs.statd, or nfs.lockd. > > Make sure you've got your distros nfs-client package installed and turn on > those three. > > (NFS is on topic for slug, so why the crosspost to -chat?) > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
