Thanks everybody for the detailed hints and answers, on the list as well as offlist. I got myself a second "sandbox" PC today, and I just installed two vanilla CentOS 5.3 systems on them. It'll be much easier to figure out the innards of NFS without the constantly nagging fear of breaking something on my production PCs. I'll eventually keep posting follow-ups to my investigations. cheers, Niki _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos