On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Regendoerp, Achim <<a href="mailto:Achim.Regendoerp@galacoral.com" target="_blank">Achim.Regendoerp@galacoral.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Chances are the local router you removed provided a host name for a lookup for them machines, adding the machines to their respective /etc/hosts may solve it, as apparently NFS does a reverse DNS lookup (info found here: <a href="http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?7270-NFS-mount-times-out&p=29064&viewfull=1#post29064" target="_blank">http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?7270-NFS-mount-times-out&p=29064&viewfull=1#post29064</a>) Hope that helps out. </blockquote></div> Thanks very much for that. Adding the client's name and IP to the server's hosts file solved the problem. I didn't know about NFS's reverse hookup and hadn't come across that thread. Thanks for your help Cheers -- Aryan Ameri