NFS problem

[ombra]

I setup my slack 8 box as a NFS server and my Mandrake 8 box as a client last night.
When I try to mount the server using 'mount <server>:/home/public /mnt/nfs/public' it just seems to hang. I tried to kill the process but there is no process id. I issued the command again and got the same results. Well, I went to linux.com and read the HOW TO to see if I had missed anything. All my config files are correct.

I went to check the file permissions on the client and magically the directory was mounted. I took a really long time to mount but it did manage to do it.

I thought maybe the client was having a hard time resolving the name so I tried it with an IP instead. Same results. I took about 3 minutes to mount.

Anyone have any ideas why it is taking so long?

Thanks

[ph34r]

Nope, mine does the same thing, but not 3 minutes... 45 seconds or so. I did it while tailing /var/log/messages, and it sent 3 requests, spaced 10 seconds or so apart.

It may be a "waiting for the rpc stuff to start from inetd" problem or something like that...