mounting NFS share very slow from client, not server

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osxhla

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I configured an NFS share on OS X. When I mount it from the OS X NFS server, the mount occurs immediately. When I mount the nfs share from a network client, the mounting takes five or six minutes to complete. Mounting was so slow, at first, I thought the mount wasn't working. What can I do to accelerate the mounting process ? Have I done something wrong?
 
When you mount from the client, are you addressing the server by IP address or by a network name? (IE: server1.localnetwork.com) Try using the IP address so it doesn't have to look up the name, it may be that your client machine is going out into the Internet to try and resolve the server name when it should have never left the local network. In that case you could use the hosts file to manually direct the network name to the static IP address.

If you were using an IP address in the first place, I'm stumped. Are you running a firewall by any chance?
 
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