I have two Syquest drives and a CDROM that I want to export from my SuSE 5.1 machine A (192.168.11.11) to another Linux machine B (192.168.11.50) on my network (192.168.11.0). I have DNS (intra.net - private domain name) set up in A with both Name->IP and IP->Name mappings. Initially, per man exports, I had the following line in /etc/exports: /ez1 192.168.11.*/255.255.255.0 # all machines on the 192.168.11.0 network However, on B I get "permission denied" message when I try to mount any of the exported file systems from A with above format. When I changed the format to that shown below, I am able to mount them. Although, I have solved my problem, I am curious as to what is the syntax for specifying a wildcard for IP address i.s.o domain names in /etc/exports TIA -- Arun Khan ======== File /etc/exports # See exports(5) for a description. # This file contains a list of all directories exported to other computers. # It is used by rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd. /ez1 *.intra.net /ez2 *.intra.net /cdrom *.intra.net - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e