The instalation here was a bit changed now i have a gateway/firewall dedicated amchine with some servers on it. It occured to me that if i had both machines use the same downloaded files in /var/spool/up2date i would save download time and save some bandwidth on the RH server. In order to accomplish this efficiently, since when i update one machine the other will also get updated in the same session , i tried NFS but seems like " cross mounting " directories is somehow not working . i export /var/spool/up2date from machines a and b i mount ( through fstab ) the exports to /var/spool/up2date First machine mounts but when i try to mount the second machine i got permission denied.With both having the same configuration. a ) am i using the right tool to accomplish this ? b ) what am i missing ? ( apart from a brain ..of course .. ; ) Ric