I get the above error message when booting and nfs will not start even though it is in the runlevel editor for runlevels 3 & 5 (SuSE 8.1). I got a reply to a previous thread that fixed the opening of a share from a SuSE 8.0 machine. It is below. What would cause this failure. Art /etc/exports: hepe:~ # cat /etc/exports / 192.168.1.20(rw,no_root_squash) 192.168.1.10(ro,no_root_squash) /etc/ssh/sshd_config: hepe:~ # cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config # deleted all comments out.... Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server IgnoreRhosts yes RhostsRSAAuthentication no RhostsAuthentication yes IgnoreUserKnownHosts no PrintMotd yes StrictModes yes RSAAuthentication yes PermitRootLogin yes PermitEmptyPasswords no PasswordAuthentication yes Hope this helps. Jaska.