> Two things come to mind: > 1. I hope ther is a directory structure: /garl/garl-intel1/local on garl-intel2 Yes. There is. > 2. But more importand your line in fstab should be: > reads: > garl-intel1:/garl/garl-intel1/local /garl/garl-intel1/local nfs > ro,defaults 0 0 Changed it this way. Still the same result. [root@garl-intel2 ~]# mount garl-intel1:/garl/garl-intel1/local /local mount to NFS server 'garl-intel1' failed: server is down. Thanks, Sathish