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.jspx 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. jh