Re: NFS, DVD Playback

[Janet Sullivan <ciscogeek@xxxxxxxx>]

James Frazer wrote:

> When the machine boots, one of my NFS file systems (/home) 
> always fails to mount (but gives no error).  
> The relevant lines from fstab are:
>
> trogdor:/usr/ports      /usr/ports      nfs     rw   0   0 
> trogdor:/home           /home           nfs     rw   0   0
>
> However, I have no problem mounting this after logging in with a 
> "mount trogdor:/home /home" ... I've tried a number of different 
> combinations, such as changing the order in fstab, and using the 
> full server name.  Nothing seems to make it work the way it should.

What happens if you replace the machine name in fstab with the machine's 
IP address?  (i.e. 10.1.1.1:/home)  Perhaps you have a name resolution 
problem during startup.