Can't mount over nfs

[beaky]

Trying to do an NFS mount using the following command:

sudo mount -t nfs beaky:/mnt/vast /mnt/test

But the command never returns. All other networking seems fine eg. WWW, and I can ssh to beaky. The request is apparently authenticated by beaky, but that's all the info I can see.

Any suggestions, general NFS debugging hints gratefully accepted . . .

TIA,

Ian Smith

[tuxtom]

You should start the portmapper before:
sudo portmap

tom

[beaky]

Strangely enough, I have _just_ got this working using the command:

/etc/init.d/nfs-common restart

which presumably kicks the portmapper too. Thanks anyway!

[beaky]

BTW, for future reference, I'd suggest the following:

sudo /etc/init.d/portmap start
sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-common start