From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 3 22:43:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA20876 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 22:43:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA20869 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 22:43:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00940; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 22:43:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 22:43:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Cliff Addy cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Cliff Addy wrote: > Where is any documentation on NFS? The only thing I can find at > freebsd.org is a page on solving some bizzare problem, but nothing on the > fundamentals of *using* it. For example: > > 1) I have nfs-mounted a directory from one machine to another. How do I > get it unmounted? umount -t nfs dirname comes back with "dirname not > mounted" `mount dirname' doesn't get rid of it? See if it's still mounted by running 'mount' with no options. I've never had any problems with it. > > 2) Is there something special to export and mount a directory that's not > off the root? e.g. I can export and mount /usr, but not /usr/ftp, I get a > "permission denied" message. Set up /etc/exports to export only /usr/ftp. NFS is rather picky about what you can export. See exports(5). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major