Dy>On Saturday 17 May 2003 13:23, Constant Brouerius van Dy>Nidek wrote: Dy>> Or should that be adjusted too? Dy>sounds like you're halfway there. Your /etc/exports Dy>file on the server (host) Dy>side should look something like this: Dy>/ *(rw) Dy>/home *(rw) Dy>/drdos *(rw) Exactly what I have. Dy>and the /etc/fstab on the client(s) should contain Dy>something like: Dy>server:/ /network nfs defaults 0 0 Dy>server:/home /network/home nfs defaults 0 0 Dy>server:/drdos /network/drdos nfs defaults 0 0 My servers name is bigone, my network constant.net Should that mean that the second part, network, is constant.net? Always thought that the second column should be the mountpoint. Or do you say I should make a new mountpoint with the name network? It does not work yet ;-( Dy>remember each file must have a blank like at the end, Dy>and nfs can get picky Dy>about extraneous whitespace in /etc/exports Dy>That will put the exported filesystems in the same Dy>relative place on the Dy>clients (i.e. as if /network was the server's root fs) Dy>This is not Dy>necessarily a good thing - if for some reason the Dy>server's root export fails Dy>to mount, for example, then the other mounts will also Dy>fail. It would be Dy>better to put them in, e.g. /network/root /network/home Dy>and /network/drdos to avoid these issues. Dy>Also, unless there is good reason to then the root fs Dy>(server:/) shouldn't be Dy>exported, especially rw, but at least you don't have Dy>no_root_squash set as Dy>that is extremely unsafe. Also, you should at least use Dy>your local network as access list (e.g.) Dy>/home 192.168.15.0/24(rw) You lost me there. Where does this access list thingy enter the business? Dy>so that you can be more certain where connections are Dy>coming from. Lastly, if Dy>you are nfs mounting user home directories, you need Dy>the no_all_squash export Dy>option so that users have proper privelidges on their Dy>files. See man exports Dy>and man mount (and refs there) for plenty more info. That is where I am afraid of. I do not see through at the moment. Any man page more and I surrender ;-). -- ! Not on your life ! NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.