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 -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110820/44327231/attachment-0005.sig>