That was it. Portmap was running, nfs was not. I had a note to myself to uncomment the auto start of nfs, but didn't uncomment it out... DOH! (I also had the fstab line ready to go in the laptop and uncommented that as well)
Thanks for the help, Martin John -----Original Message----- From: Martin Eisenhardt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 1:56 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nfs behavior On Friday 02 September 2005 19:41, Martin Eisenhardt wrote: > > Are you sure that the portmapper service is running on both the server and > the laptop? Check > > /etc/init.d/portmap status > > and start the portmapper if it is not already running. That reminds me: Check /etc/init.d/nfs status and start NFS on the server if it is not running. After seeing your second posting, it occurs to me that the portmapper might be running while NFS itself is not. Regards Martin -- Dipl. Wirtsch.Inf. (Univ.) Martin Eisenhardt Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg Department Business Informatics and Applied Computer Science Media Informatics Group D - 96045 Bamberg fon: +49 (951) 863 2856 fax: +49 (951) 863 2852 www: http://www.mneisen.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list