[COLUG] Delay Mounting NFS Volume

[Mark Erbaugh]

I am running Ubuntu Dapper. My desktop and notebook computers are
connected to my router. I am trying to share a directory on the desktop
computer with the notebook.  Since the notebook is not always connected
to the router, I do not automatically mount this directory but it is set
up to mount manually.  Here is the appropriate line from /etc/fstab:

p2000:/usr/net_storage /media/p2000 nfs user,rw,noauto 0 0

When the notebook is connected to the router and I issue the command
mount /media/p2000 it takes almost a minute to return. I don't know if
it is my imagination, but it seems like it's gradually taking more and
more time to complete.  Once the directory is mounted, the access to it
is as fast as would be expected.

The desktop computer is named p2000. It has a reserved IP address and
that is mapped in the desktop's hosts file.  A ping p2000 command from
the notebook works with response times in the 0.2 msec range.

Why is the mount command taking so long?

Thanks,
Mark