Can't always mount NFS

[CaptainPinko]

i have a home network and a rh8 server sharing nfs shares, the redhat server can mount its own nfs shaers as can a ydl machnie on the network but i can't get my gentool inux box or my knoppix boot cd t omount them. it just crashes whatever shell i type it in. no error messages. i can't evn ctrl-z ! all the computers are plugged into the same switch and ther are no firewalls since i'm behind a physical one

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by CaptainPinko
. it just crashes whatever shell i type it in. no error messages. i can't evn ctrl-z !

What command are you typing?

You have setup /etc/hosts, /etc/fstab & /etc/exports for NFS with the proper hostnames/ip address, mountpoints etc.?

And also have the NFS services started?

[CaptainPinko]

Originally posted by mdwatts
What command are you typing?

mount -t orion:/home /mnt/orion


You have setup /etc/hosts, /etc/fstab & /etc/exports for NFS with the proper hostnames/ip address, mountpoints etc.?
well i can successfully ping -c 5 orion and ssh to it so i'd guess hosts is fine. the servces server side are fine since i can mount that same direxctory from the server itself (ie. it mounts itself) and from a g3 PowerBook running YDL. Now the server is RH8 and the YDL 3 is basically RH8 recompiled for PPC but the box i'm trying to connnect from is running Gentoo (vsilla-sources) and i also tried mounting from the same box but from booting from a Knoppix CD. both times failed. so could this be a distro problem? from whst i know of nfs this shouldn't be the case (isn't it *nix compatible?)... but then again what do i know

And also have the NFS services started?
on the server? i'd say yes for the reason stated above. is there a client side service that needsto be started too? is there something missing in the kernel perhaps? (although when i checked, everything that looked like it might even remotely be associated with nfs looks compild as a module