Thanks for the suggestions. I wasn't previously aware of the showmount command; it is quite useful. Initially, I could only see the shares, not mount them, as I kept getting a refusal from the server, but this appeared to be due to the fact that the IP number of my laptop keeps changing, so I modified the /etc/exports entry on the server to look like this: /home/colin <a href="http://10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw)">10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw)</a> Now, using the command sudo mount -w ariel:/home/colin /mnt/ariel I can mount the share, however only read-only. The permissions in /mnt appear like this: drwxr-xr-x 94 500 500 12288 2006-01-06 19:19 ariel The username is the same on both machines. What could be going wrong? Thanks...