> ok i got the nfs-utils installed how do i start the daemon? im install > nfs-server on centos 4.5 by the way. I don't know if 4.5 is radically different, but on 5.0, nfs came with the base install. I simply added my directory-to-share & permissions in /etc/exports then did a "service nfs start" (and "chkconfig nfs on" if you want it to persist across reboots). johnn