It's hard for me to remember anything in all my years of using computers that is as big a PITA as NFS.
It was working fine yesterday. Today, without touching anything, suddenly the client can't see the files on the share. Thunar hangs when I try to open a window to display the share; Nautilus just presents a spinning cursor, but at least I can exit gracefully without having to kill it. >From the command line on the client the mount command executes without error and df -h says the share is mounted. However, when I try to umount the share I get error messages that the share is busy. I even tried umount -f, but it still says the share is busy and won't umount it. And the terminal window hangs if I try to cd to the share; that is, I can cd right up to the folder I want to see, but just typing the first letter of the folder hangs the terminal window, as does the ls command. That probably means something, but Google won't tell me what. The server is the laptop, Xubuntu 13.10, up to date, and the client is the desktop, Xubuntu 12.04, up to date. The share is the /media folder on the laptop, and the files I want to see are on an external USB drive, mounted at /media/jjj/Movies on the laptop. The laptop has no problem displaying or manipulating the files in the Movies folder. Suggestions for things to poke at would be welcome. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
