On Sunday, 19 November 2023 00:30:24 GMT William Kenworthy wrote: > On 18/11/23 15:29, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday, 17 November 2023 16:44:29 GMT I wrote: > >> I'll try that - thanks. > > > > Damn fool - it was a firewall problem on the server. For some reason, the > > NFS destination port has changed. > > > > Sorry for the noise. > > Actually, NFS may have some ports dynamicly allocated so they change on > reboot. Google "pin NFS ports" for how to fix them for firewalls.
Yes, indeed. In fact I don't know why this has only just bitten me; I've been doing the same thing for years without problem. That search turns up so many answers that I don't know where to start, even prefixing the phrase with "gentoo". Most of them seem to date from 10 years ago or more. -- Regards, Peter.