Hello there! Perhaps this is a little off-topic, but I notice this only on the Centos box. I'm running Centos 4 on an AMD64 which has the following entries in the fstab to connect to NFS shares on a Fedora3 box: 192.168.1.12:/home/angelo/ /home/angelo/NFS_share1 nfs rw,addr=192.168.1.12 0 0 192.168.1.12:/home/angelo/data /home/angelo/NFS_share2 nfs rw,addr=192.168.1.12 0 0 192.168.1.12:/home/angelo/data2 /home/angelo/NFS_share3 nfs rw,addr=192.168.1.12 0 0 I have opened ports 111 (TCP), 648 (TCP), 651 (TCP) and 2049 (TCP and UDP) in iptables on the FC3 box and I can connect to them, but after a while I seem to loose the connection to the shares. When I try to move into them while in a console I get the error: bash: cd: NFS_share1: Input/output error In Nautilus I don't even see the directories anymore and in /var/log/messages I get this error msgs: Apr 24 20:17:02 solaris kernel: RPC: garbage, exit EIO There are not entries in the /var/log/messages on the FC3 box. If I manually umount them and then mount them again, I can use them again for a while.... The exports file on the FC3 box looks like this: [root@imhotep etc]# more exports /home/angelo 192.168.1.*(rw,sync) /home/angelo/data 192.168.1.*(rw,sync) /home/angelo/data2 192.168.1.*(rw,sync) Anyone any idea what is wrong here? Thanks in advance, Angelo