From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 22 10:18:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.27in.tv (roc-66-24-112-7.rochester.rr.com [66.24.112.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E014D37B400 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:18:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.27in.tv (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0MIIFi20686; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:18:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from 27in.tv (roc-66-24-112-7.rochester.rr.com [66.24.112.7]) by mail.27in.tv (8.11.6/8.11.6av) with SMTP id g0MIIDU20659; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:18:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from 216.153.202.7 (SquirrelMail authenticated user cjm2) by www1.27in.tv with HTTP; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:18:13 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <2490.216.153.202.7.1011723493.squirrel@www1.27in.tv> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:18:13 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: NFS exports file From: "C J Michaels" To: In-Reply-To: <20020122104441.57562.qmail@web20003.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020122104441.57562.qmail@web20003.mail.yahoo.com> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.4 [cvs]) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can only export mount points. Not subdirectory's of mount points. Despite the lack of df output here, I would assume you have a situation where /home is a symlink to /usr/home and /usr is the mount point. In this case you need to export /usr --Chris Gavin Kenny said: > Hi Guys, > > I'm trying my hand at setting up NFS. I have followed > the handbook and all the deamons seem to startup OK > > but when I edit my /etc/exports file and load it via: > kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid` > > I get the following message: > "bad exports list line /home " > > I have one line in my exports file and have tried the > following combinations without success; (Note I don't > have DNS so I am using IP addresses) > > /home -alldirs 123.456.789.123 > or > /home 123.456.789.123 > or > /home -alldirs -network 123.456.789.123 > or > /usr/home -network 123.456.789.123 > > and all stations south. > > When I try to mount from the client I get "Permission > denied", which I am assuming is because the exports > list is not loading. > > so what am I doing wrong? > > cheers > > Gavin > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts > http://uk.my.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Chris "I'll defend to the death your right to say that, but I never said I'd listen to it!" -- Tom Galloway with apologies to Voltaire To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message