I'm trying to let only one host ( named spud ) to mount nfs on my linux. in linux i have hosts.allow: ALL : spud and hosts.deny : ALL : ALL if i remove the line in hosts.deny i can be accessed from anywhere but if i leave it there, i cant mount linux's nfs on spud. what did i do wrong ? ( i know tcpd is not involved in nfs, but portmap also reads hosts.allow and hosts.deny ) thanks Erez