Well crap! Now this is the kind of bug that can be REALLY aggravating! I had a friend come over to take a look at this problem, with me, to see if two eyes would be better than one. And he decides to bring up the map file using Xemacs, and damned if there weren't some non-printing characters embedded in that file. Dunno how they got there, and kwrite was not showing them to me... Sigh... Removed em and all started working as expected... Ugh! Anywise, my comments about NFS's documentation still stands. but we have been chasing red herrings apparently... Now to see if using the KDE/Hal automount process will still work... I am worried about how permissions/ownership gets set, and how to configure them, if it prevents me from exporting and mounting the USB drive... Will report back soon... Marc... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org