Re: Re: A couple questions

> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 01:59:58PM -0400, David Ondzes wrote:
> > In the mean time I have resorted to mounting the shares via nfs and
> > creating a mount point on /tmp. Which has it own problems. The mount
> > command takes about 5-7 minutes to return, why ?
> 
> DNS timeouts?  Is the NFS server running some sort of local packet
> filter that might be blocking the mount-related traffic?  It should
> only take a few seconds at most for the mount to come up.  See details
> here of how I got it working:
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.roku.technical/1679

Dave's suggestions did the trick. Starting the port mapper
(/sbin/portmap)  made my nfs mounts happen in seconds instead of
minutes. Thanks Dave !