OK There are a couple of messages in this thread offering help, and I have had a few emails with advice in. I now have an understanding as to what goes on at boot time with daemons. Armed with this I trawled dselect for differences in the various machine concerning "nfs"
I found that the desktops had by default installed the package "nfs-kernel-server", whereas the laptop had installed the alternative "nfs-server", so I switched the laptop to the other version, and the problem when away! Why would the two machines load different versions of a similar set of daemons? I would like to know. ....however that problem is solved, so on to the next one Thanks to David and Marty for long detailed explanations. I have filed them Keith. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Keith O'Connell | "That which does not kill | | Maidstone, Kent (UK) | us, usually still hurts. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | That's just life, I'm afraid" | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
