remote box is a Red Hat 7.3 server I'm using to test web pages.
terminal is a Debian testing box.

I opened an nfs share on the rh box to myself so I could conveniently cd 
in rather than ftp in.  (everything is local and secure).  The kicker 
is:  anything I do locks the process on my local machine, and the 
process is not killable.  

mount www.remote.com:/var/www dev
cp dev/html/index.html .

hung.  Can not shut down my machine.  Must hard-reset.

I'm hoping it's my machine's fault, this is a good excuse to try 
upgrading the kernel (I just threw the box up with Debian defaults). 
 Any suggestions?

--Alexander