On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 12:45:17 John Hodrien wrote:
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Anne Wilson wrote:
Every attempt to mount was simply hanging - so no help at all. However, as you will have seen by now, the problem is solved. I was right that I had missed some steps, and you were right that the mount points at the server end were not correctly set up. The guide on http://www.crazysquirrel.com/computing/debian/servers/setting-up-nfs4.jsp x has got everything working again.
Thanks for trying to help.
I'd also suggest that you'd be better to not have these mounted directly from fstab. Make a simple automounter map for these and your life is all round less troublesome. You'll not suffer anywhere near as badly when an nfs mount is unavailable, and it'll recover gracefully once it's available again.
Hi, John. That sounds really useful, particularly on the netbook where I have to remember to disable the mounts before travelling. The only problem is, I don't know how to do that. Can you either describe it to me or point me to suitable reading? Thanks
Anne