Just to pre-empt any posts with this possible solution. I may have found the answer : I don't have any entries in my etc/hosts file. I'm unable to check this until I get home but it seems to make sense.

Liam



>Further to my last post....
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>In desperation, I've since removed all entries from hosts.deny and added ALL: ALL to hosts.allow
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>I'm still getting the permission denied error. The logged message is still:
>samba mountd[366]: mount request from unknown host 192.168.100.3
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>I've added /tmp *(ro) to /etc/exports and tried to connect to that directory but I'm still getting an error so it's not a problem mounting the CD.
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>I'm all outa things to try. Anyone else got any ideas?
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>TIA
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>>Hi Jason,
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>>Thanks for your quick response.
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>>I've inserted the following line in hosts.deny
>>portmap: ALL
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>>and the following line in hosts.allow
>>portmap: 192.168.100.0/255.255.255.0
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>>The logged message is :
>>samba mountd[366]: mount request from unknown host 192.168.100.3
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>>My understanding is that allowing portmap services will give me access to nfsd and mountd.
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>>Do you any further pointers?
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>>Best
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>>Liam
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>>>Did you allow portmap connections in /etc/hosts.allow? Remember that the new portmapper service uses tcp wrappers and NFS connections use portmap, so if you don't allow those in hosts.allow (assuming your hosts.deny says ALL : ALL like it should =) ) you can't make the NFS connection.
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>>>Check your logs for connection denials.
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>>>j