nfs connection speed question

[Mark Kelly]

Hi.

On Thursday 02 August 2007 22:01, David McGlone wrote:
> On Thursday 02 August 2007 12:43:59 pm Nigel Ridley wrote:
> > My fstab entry (on the laptop):
> > 192.168.0.xxx:/home/nigel /mnt/Home nfs noauto,rw,user,hard,intr 0 0
>
> Nigel, I'm not an expert, but shouldn't your entry have some forward
> slashes in front of the IP address

The // notation is specific to CIFS, as far as I know. Nigel's fstab looks 
fine.

> I'm not really sure about nfs, but I'd suspect it works like cifs.

No, it's quite different.

The only advice I can offer about the original problem is to look carefully 
at the firewalls on both machines. NFS uses a randomly chosen port for 
each connection, perhaps negotiating this is causing the delay. I have 
seen it fail with an overly stringent firewall.

Mark