From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 3 15:29:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.pii.com (mailhost.pii.com [192.77.209.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1B021569B for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 15:29:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Robert.Clark@pii.com) Received: from rio.pii.com (rio.pii.com [192.77.209.200]) by mailhost.pii.com (8.9.1/8.9.1/Praegitzer-antispam) with ESMTP id PAA28128; Mon, 3 May 1999 15:33:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (robertc@localhost) by rio.pii.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA12935; Mon, 3 May 1999 15:32:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 15:32:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Clark To: "Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists)" Cc: Doug White , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFSD limitations? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you have to worry about drive letters, is the client running DOS? (Or something DOS derived?) If so, the samba may be a good fit for you. I believe it will allow all of the things you've asked about. [RC] On Mon, 3 May 1999, Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists) wrote: > On Mon, 3 May 1999, Doug White wrote: > > > > 1) I can't export directories which are not local mount point. E.g., I > > > have disk mounted on /vol1 and want to export only /vol1/ftp . Is this > > > possible (if I try to export /vol1/ftp/.1, mountd complains about wrong > > > mount point)? Even worse, I need to export /var/spool for pcnsfd printing, > > > but don't want to export entire /var. In my case, /var is on separate > > > partition. > > > > It can be done. Try using the '-alldirs' flag first; this will let you > > mount /vol1 and any subtree, including /vol1/ftp. > > No, my point was to limit the export. In other words, I don't want to > export entire /var or /vol1, just parts of them (which are not > mountpoints). > > > > 2) NFS mount does not seem to go through local filesystems. E.g., I have > > > another disk mounted on /vol1/ftp/.1 and want export of /vol1/ftp to > > > transparently "bleed" through to /vol1/ftp/.1 ? > > > > NFS mounts do not cross mountpoints. You'll have to mount that yourself. > > Pity. That results in two additional drive letters :-( Ugly. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Sergey Ayukov Sternberg Astronomical Institute > http://www.ayukov.com Moscow, Russia > http://crydee.sai.msu.ru/index-asv.html > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message