hi... further research hasn't solved the issue. i have the server nfs /etc/exports /college 192.168.1.*(rw) i have the client nfs/mount mount -o rw 192.168.1.52:/college /college when i add a file to the share as client1, the client and the nfs server can edit the file with no problem. the other clients can't!! in fact, the file attributes are changed/set to some very large number... if i go to the nfs server, and i make the changes to the file (chmod,chgrp,chown) then the settings are somewhat seen by the other clients, and each client can then edit the given files on the nfs share... i would have thought that there should be a way to set up the nfs, so that client1 can create/add a file, and that client2 can edit the file, and vice versa.... searching via google seems to indicate that this should work, but i can't see how to get it to perform. thanks ps. yeah, there are read/write privs on the nfs mount for the clients and yeah, the user is the same on each machine -----Original Message----- From: Thom Paine [mailto:painethom@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:49 AM To: bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: nfs questions!!! Do you have a user with the same name and password on both hosts? Does said user have write permissions on the directory? Is this root? Then you need a change to your exports line. /video 10.10.10.0/24(rw,no_root_squash) That is the line I use for my mythbox. -- -=/>Thom