On 2007/07/28 06:08 (GMT-0400) Robert P. J. Day apparently typed: > just yesterday, i was demonstrating NFS to a class of people running > F7 on their laptops, and i set up a simple NFS export on one system, > and asked everyone else to run "showmount -e" against that server. > only one system in the class got output from showmount, although > everyone could ping the server properly. i found this just a bit > odd, and spent a few minutes trying to figure out what was happening, > to no avail. I ran into this maybe a day or two ago. One of the systems was a fresh install, and its hosts.allow and hosts.deny were both functionally empty. After putting my usual portmap entries in them and restarting nfs the problem went away. -- "All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteoousness." 2 Timothy 3:16 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/