On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 17:46 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 19 Aug 2011 17:23:34 Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Friday 19 Aug 2011 15:43:23 Tony Schreiner wrote: > > > > > > NFS v4 problems maybe. Try setting a value for Domain in > > > > > > /etc/idmapd.conf > > > > > > on both systems (the same for both). > > > > That gave me an unbootable system. I've removed it, and am back at square > > 1. Two things - > > > > I should have said that I can access the system from the laptop using ssh + > > keys. > > > > During bootup I saw many messages about nfs4 exports failing, so that's > > whre the problem is, it seems. Can you please give me a sample line of a > > known good nfs4 export? > > > It's hard to be sure when messages flash by so quickly, but I got the > impression that there was something about fstab. Maybe the format required > for those lines has changed, too? These are the lines that I guess it is > looking at: > > /Data1 /nfs4exports/Data1 none bind 0 0 > /Data2 /nfs4exports/Data2 none` bind 0 0 > /Data3 /nfs4exports/Data3 none bind 0 0 > /home /nfs4exports/home none bind 0 0 > > I think there was something about wrong or missing type. Each of those > partitions is defined earlier in fstab and does have the correct type stated. ---- this is obviously intended to be your NFS server (who knows whether this is CentOS or Fedora 14). You can only bind mount something that already exists and maybe it's empty. does ls -l /Data1 /Data2 /Data3 /home show much of anything? On the other system (the NFS client), what does it have in fstab? Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.