On Thursday 27 September 2007 02:16:50 am Robert McBroom wrote: > Thanks guys. Posted on this problem on 9/12 but apparently didn't ask the > right question. The command service nfs restartgets me going. > I still need to know why it didn't start the service automatically on the > system boot. Do I need the explicit declaration in the hosts.allow file > for my clients like Aldo's? Did you do turn it on at boot (this server is not on by default) via chkconfig nfs on Can confirm with chkconfig --list nfs which will show you what run levels it is started on.