Problem with home directory

[Chris G]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:02:24AM +0100, Alain Muls wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 February 2009 21:58:37 ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com 
> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Since about 2 weeks I have a big problem accessing my home directory.
> > > Every application (file manager, emacs, firefox, konsole eg ls ~ ...)
> > > that wants to access the listing of my home dir, stalls for several
> > > minutes. This problem does not exist for any other directory.
> > >
> > > I do not have a big file in home, and their is 15% free disk space.
> > >
> > > Another problem, perhaps related to the previous problem, is that
> > > printing takes also a real long time (minutes before I get a printer
> > > selection from cups).
> >
> > It's something timing out, probably a link to a filesystem that isn't
> > there any more.  Do you have any nfs or samba filesystems?
> Hi Chris
> 
> That is correct.
> I have 2 links to a NFS mounted directory and 2 links to samba mounted 
> directories. I can only enable the nfs at work, while at home I have access to 
> the samba shared hard disk.
> 
> What should I do to avoid these problems, while maintaining the facility to 
> link to these dirs.
> 
So is this on a laptop that you use at home and work - with the Samba
links working at home and the NFS ones at work?

-- 
Chris Green