Greetings from geekland, So I had working nfs and now I have a broken nfs, mmm. The server worked all night long no problems, My setup is as follows: Celeron 2.4 Gig with 512 mb ram on a msi 7005 maiboard on board everything, I have added thre pci intel pro 100 + network cards and fill the pci slots. I created a bond between the three intel cards (eth1 eth2 eth3). and the onboard (eth0) is a route to another network ie eth0 = 196.25.100.120 bond0 = 192.168.10.2 When I start nfs it takes a long time time more than 5 five minutes. I have checked dmesg and /var/log/messages there are no entries refering to nfs or nfsd. It was working perfectly until I added a new dir which I have now removed, but I still sit with this problem. Exportfs does show the shares, but exportfs -r or -a just hangs for more than five minutes too. I have tried rebooting and restarting each service one by one netfs nfs xinetd network etc... Where else could I look for the cause of the problem. I have tested the bond0 device thoroughly I just copied two gigs of isos over in under 3 minutes, I don't think thats the problem. The service --status-all |grep nfs shows the service is running here is some output. [root@preload root]# service --status-all |grep nfs nfsd (pid 3210 3209 3208 3207 3206 3205 3204 3203) is running... [root@preload root]# [root@preload home]# exportfs /diskb/ifc1 <world> /diskb/ifc2 <world> /home/fc1 <world> Then try mounting and [root@chadlin root]# mount preload:/fc1 test/ mount to NFS server 'preload' failed: server is down any ideas? -- ****************************************************************** Chadley Wilson Soon 2 B RHCE Linux Rocks Welcome to my world. Enjoy the adventures of Linux *************************************************** Linux is easy, lazy people criticise, curse and fail.