I followed the instruction on the following page to setup nfs on my Drobo 5N. But it seems that the nfs service is not started automatically. Does anybody know how to make nfs start automaticallly upon Drobo 5N reboot? Thanks.
It should start automatically. At least it does on mine. What does your exports file look like? Do you have SSH installed on your 5N? If so, could you please copy the content of the file /tmp/DroboApps/nfs/log.txt ?
I have the same problem where the service doesn’t start at boot. I’ve also had my NFS shares spontaneously disconnecting, which is really ruining my day. From my Mac’s console (I didn’t see anything in the Drobo-side log, although the lack of timestamps makes the log useless):
1/12/14 3:09:30.391 PM KernelEventAgent[53]: tid 54485244 type 'nfs', mounted on '/Volumes/Shares', from 'drobo:/mnt/DroboFS/Shares', not responding
1/12/14 3:10:01.000 PM kernel[0]: nfs server drobo:/mnt/DroboFS/Shares: not responding
1/12/14 3:10:06.000 PM kernel[0]: nfs server drobo:/mnt/DroboFS/Shares: not responding
1/12/14 3:10:06.000 PM kernel[0]: nfs server drobo:/mnt/DroboFS/Shares: not responding
1/12/14 3:10:08.000 PM kernel[0]: nfs server drobo:/mnt/DroboFS/Shares: not responding
1/12/14 3:10:10.000 PM kernel[0]: nfs server drobo:/mnt/DroboFS/Shares: not responding
1/12/14 3:10:14.000 PM kernel[0]: nfs server drobo:/mnt/DroboFS/Shares: not responding
1/12/14 3:10:15.000 PM kernel[0]: nfs server drobo:/mnt/DroboFS/Shares: dead
1/12/14 3:10:15.445 PM KernelEventAgent[53]: tid 54485244 type 'nfs', mounted on '/Volumes/Shares', from 'drobo:/mnt/DroboFS/Shares', not responding, dead
It’s been a hell of a week in Drobo-land for me. A drive is semi-failing, my mSATA SSD did fail, NFS is taking naps, and I can’t log into the forums half the time, nor stay logged in across browser sessions when I do. It’s like everything decided to go wrong all at once.
hi diamond, that doesnt sound good.
(it could just all be coincidence) - am sure theres no conspiracy against you 
do you know which drive is (semi-failing)?
and did you say semi, because it gave you an error which sometimes fixes itself, and comes back again?
There is another thread on the same issue here: http://www.drobospace.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=141719&pid=179581#pid179581
Apparently there is something wrong with rpcbind, a helper process used by the NFS daemon. Could you please check if your log file on the Drobo has the same error messages?