> 
> >>>>> "Jacques" == Jacques Hugo <jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za> writes:
> 
>     Jacques> Sorry, I didn't mention that /sbin/mountd is running,

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> Check that portmap is running. Mount requests go there first to find
> out which ports the mount daemon is using today. If the portmapper is
> running, make sure it's telling the truth - see rpcinfo(8). [It might
> be an idea to kill it and any RPC daemons, then start the portmapper
> and then the RPC daemons.] Turn up the logging/debugging on these
> processes and watch what ends up in the log files. If that doesn't
> help, get hold of tcpdump and take a look at the packets going by on
> the wire. tcpdump knows about NFS and mount traffic.
> 
> The problem as described is quite clear. Your mount requests are not
> being acknowledged by the server. Since the server is alive and
> reachable, this means the mount requests are either not getting
> through or their replies are not getting back.

Thanks, I'll do that.  portmap is running, and killed all RPC daemons
but still got the same result.  I'll give tcpdump a shot, and turn
on the debuggin ( wonder why I didn't think of that )

Thanks for the help, guys ...

-Jacques