> Check the ownership? I recall at some point of time there was something with > the id mapping - also check if you may need to enforce nfs version 3 nice idea but the uids are the same across the network; the gid differ but that should not matter as the access is 600. I can create and delete files read them etc as expected. The files are mounted with nfs3 snout -fstype=nfs,nfsvers=3,rw,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,user,suid 172.16.4.42:/ ==John ffitch