<div>On 2/16/07, Peter Garrett <<a href="mailto:peter.garrett@optusnet.com.au">peter.garrett@optusnet.com.au</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:04:02 +0100 "Jeremy Thompson" <<a href="mailto:jeremy.a.thompson+ubuntu@googlemail.com">jeremy.a.thompson+ubuntu@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: > I issues the 'sudo mount -a' command and I get > > mount to NFS server 'server' failed: server is down On the server, have you tried sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart ? ( I'm assuming that you are using the nfs kernel server ) </blockquote><div> Well, I'm running a FreeNAS server which is based on FreeBSD. I haven't had any problems with it, ever. All I've ever had to do when the ubuntu box has restarted and not mapped the drives is restart the server. However even when the ubuntu box couldn't see the NFS shares it could see the SMB shares. All my current windows boxes can see the shares, but ubunut can't. And SMB was one of the upgrades. I'm thinking that the services on my box weren't started, so I'm going to check that. If you can think of something I else I can try then thanks! JT </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Also if you run ps aux | grep nfsd you should see a first line like root 4758 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Feb13 0:00 [nfsd4] Followed by about 8 lines each ending in [nfsd] . If you run cat /etc/default/portmap do you see a line like #OPTIONS="-i <a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a>" ? That line should be commented out, as above, with a # , or portmap will only listen on the loopback interface of the server machine. rpcinfo -p <a href="http://192.168.1.100">192.168.1.100</a> ( substitute the IP of your NFS server) should output quite a few lines including portmapper lines, nfs lines, nlockmgr, mountd and status . Good info at <a href="http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/NFS-HOWTO/">http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/NFS-HOWTO/</a> HTH and all that ... Peter -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </a> </blockquote></div>