Jim Rees wrote: How come my nfs client is trying to contact portmap when I've given both the port= and mountport= options? Is it supposed to do that? Nfs3, nolock, kernel 3.12, nfsutils 1.2.9 on Arch. To answer my own question... you have to specify transport protocol. I had thought that since tcp is the default, I wouldn't need that option, but I do. Thanks everyone for the help. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html