Connecting laptop to sever

[John]

Kim Briggs wrote:
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Hi Nils & Kim, Thanks for the suggestions.

NFS is configured on the SuSE server and proven to be working. I am not 
using Samba. The server has a fixed IP address and serves as my DHCP 
host from which the new laptop does receive an IP address.

When I say 'proven', I have an old laptop, configured by a former 
colleague, running a version of Ubuntu 6. Looking at the hosts file, it 
does not reference the server and, as far as I can see, the setup is 
pretty much the same as the new machine. The old machine mounts the 
server's exported drives and reads the intranet pages successfully. I've 
even tried copying the relevant portion of fstab and the script I use to 
mount the drives from the old machine to the new one. It still does not 
work on the new one! By intranet, I mean the CUPS administration pages 
and various other local pages which are not accessible via any of my 
external URLs and, yes, the URLs are names not IP addresses on both 
machines. The external URLs the new machine reads with no problem! (Yes, 
my server is running Apache internet server)

I can not find reference to nfs-common on the U6 machine but it is 
installed on the U8 one.

It is unfortunate that I am no longer in touch with the former colleague!

Any further thoughts on files I should look at on the U8 machine, please?

Thanks in advance

John