Hi Jason,

Thanks for your responses. The problem was, in fact, the lack of an entry in /etc/hosts.

Best regards,

Liam



>>I've inserted the following line in hosts.deny
>>portmap: ALL
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>Make that:
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>ALL : ALL : spawn (/bin/mail root -s "%d - denied connect from %u@%h (%a)") &
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>That way, anytime a service is denied by tcp wrappers and email is sent off to root.
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>>and the following line in hosts.allow
>>portmap: 192.168.100.0/255.255.255.0
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>You know that you can leave off the subnet mask and just say:
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>portmap : 192.168.100.
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>Same thing, just shorter format. What you have should work.
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>>The logged message is :
>>samba mountd[366]: mount request from unknown host 192.168.100.3
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>Why is samba handling this? You may want to add an /etc/hosts entry, but since you are using ip's and not hostnames in your /etc/hosts.allow is shouldn't matter.
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>>My understanding is that allowing portmap services will give me access to nfsd and mountd.
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>You might have to explicity allow mountd and nfsd in your /etc/hosts.allow file. If you stick that ALL : ALL : spawn.... line in there, you will know for sure. If you get and email with the subject "mountd - denied connect..." then you know that you have to explicity allow it.
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>j