nfs freezing programs

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:52:06 +0300
Didier <wildmad at blueline.mg> wrote:

> hello,
> 
> i am running ubuntu hoary and have following problems with nfs. i can mount 
> folders, i can read but modifying and saving files freezes the programs i run 
> on nfs shared files. when i stop or restart the system it will freeze on 
> "rebooting or stopping system please wait....." this is not gonna move 
> anymore. there i have to switch off or reset the box.
> 
> beneath i add my /etc/exports, /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny files and the 
> result of rpcinfo -p on my file server machine and my /etc/fstab file and the 
> result rpcinfo -p on the client machines. 
> 
> for your information i settled the users and group id to 1002 on the server as 
> on the clients.
> 
> any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> didier
> 
> nfs-server /etc/exports
> -----------------------------------
> /home/randria/randria1 192.168.123.0/255.255.255.0(rw,sync,root_squash)
> /home/randria/randria2 192.168.123.0/255.255.255.0(ro,sync,root_squash)

I'm no NFS expert, but is the mask necessary?  (i.e. /255.255.255.0 ) My /etc/exports doesn't have this , and works perfectly... Just an idea ...

Peter