i finally got it working by the standard steps: http://www.geocities.com/cyberkabila/admin/nfs.htm expect it is supposed to automatically start nfsd if you have an item in /etc/exports but it will not. you have to directly edit /etc/exports /etc/host.deny /etc/host.allow then start portmapper & nfsd /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap start /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start ..i'm tired i might have missed something but after those steps mine worked out of the box. =aaron On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Serge de Souza wrote: > Same here, managed to get it to work using the FC1 nfs-utils RPM. > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123017 claims that > it is because of the patches that were applied by RH to the nfs-utils. > Probably the nfs-utils tar ball from nfs.sf.net will work too. > > Does anyone know how to get a nfsd using the vanilla kernel to work with > the nfs-utils from FC2 ? Don't like the idea of using FC1 nfs-utils > > Serge > > > -- Aaron Cirilo "Cynics know the price of everything and the value of nothing." -Bill Phillips http://www.livejournal.com/users/aaroncirilo