I'm sure this has been asked and answered hundreds of times, but I've been working on it for 2 days now, and can't resolve the issue. I'm trying to mount an nfs filesystem that lives on FC4 from my Macintosh across the home lan (machines are only 15' apart). ;-) I can successfully mount nfs shares that live on the FreeBSD machine from the Mac, and can successfully ssh to the FC4 box from the Mac. On FC4: [root@shemp ~]# cat /etc/exports /disc2 moe(rw,sync) larry(ro,sync) /home moe(rw) larry(ro) [root@shemp ~]# cat /etc/hosts.allow # # hosts.allow This file describes the names of the hosts which are # allowed to use the local INET services, as decided # by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server. # ALL: ALL [root@shemp ~]# cat /etc/hosts.deny # # hosts.deny This file describes the names of the hosts which are # *not* allowed to use the local INET services, as decided # by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server. # # The portmap line is redundant, but it is left to remind you that # the new secure portmap uses hosts.deny and hosts.allow. In particular # you should know that NFS uses portmap! [root@shemp ~]# cat /proc/fs/nfs/exports # Version 1.1 # Path Client(Flags) # IPs /home larry(ro,root_squash,sync,wdelay) /disc2 larry(ro,root_squash,sync,wdelay) [root@shemp ~]# cat /var/lib/nfs/xtab [root@shemp ~]# exportfs -ra exportfs: /etc/exports [2]: No 'sync' or 'async' option specified for export "moe:/home". Assuming default behaviour ('sync'). NOTE: this default has changed from previous versions On the Mac: [charles@larry:~]$ mount -t nfs shemp:/disc2 ~/mnt mount_nfs: /Users/charles/mnt: Operation not permitted [charles@larry:~]$ mount -t nfs shemp:/home ~/mnt mount_nfs: /Users/charles/mnt: Operation not permitted properties for ~/mnt on the Mac: 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 charles charles 102 Nov 20 17:11 mnt/ My uid/gid are the same on both client and server...my username is the same on both machines, password is different. Anybody have a clue? I've read and read and Google'd and browsed till I'm blue in the face. Could this be a problem with (what is it...) "non-privileged ports"? -- Thanks, Charles