I have SuSE on a laptop and FreeBSD on a desktop. I am mounting an NFS filesystem on my laptop from the desktop machine, by having desktop:/usr/home/stephen /home/stephen/desktop nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr in my /etc/fstab file. (I got this from the man page for nfs). I have a couple of questions. 1. If I switch on the laptop with the desktop switched off, the boot sequence for the laptop stops at the point of mounting the NFS file system. Also, if I switch the laptop on while the desktop is on then switch the desktop off, then boot down the laptop, the laptop halting process stops at the umounting stage. I can see no other way around then to switch off the laptop, and then its local filesystems are not clean. How do I get around this? It seems to me that the mounting and umounting should time out after a short amount of time (like one second). 2. On boot up, I get a message something like lockdsrv: connection refused It happens while it is trying to start up httpd, but I think that is coincidence, and that it is related to NFS. Any idea what this is? -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 Phone 573-882-4540, fax 573-882-1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen stephen@math.missouri.edu -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/