On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 23:54 +1000, J wrote: > Ben wrote: > > > 'allow-hotplug eth0' means that eth0 will be brought up asynchronously > > when it is detected. > > > > However, automounting of NFS directories requires that the network > > interface is brought up by the 'networking' service. You need to > > specify 'auto eth0' instead. > > I thought that might be the case, so I have tried 'auto' as I said I would. > > And the problem persists - with the ping in place, I get two exports > mounted, without the ping, I get only one export mounted. [...] I think that somewhere in NFS mounting we must have a time limit that is too low. How long does it take before you can ping the server? Ben.
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