From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 30 21:30: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 764DC15518 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 21:29:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id AAA17187; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 00:31:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199907010431.AAA17187@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: NFS exports In-Reply-To: <000001bec2a3$63c894a0$0500a8c0@tellico> from Thatcher Hubbard at "Jun 29, 99 09:51:01 pm" To: hubbardj@earthlink.net (Thatcher Hubbard) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 00:31:20 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thatcher Hubbard wrote, > Hi everyone, [snip] > My exports file > originally had a single line it it: > > /usr/local/tftpboot -alldirs -mapall=root > > But when i -HUP'd mountd it complained about not being able to re-mount the > directory, whatever that means. So, I jumped straight to what I thought > would get the job done with: > > / -alldirs -mapall=root > > But it's still denying mount requests. I've gone through the exports and > mountd man pages, and I can't find anything obviously wrong with my exports > file, does anyone know what the problem is here? TIA. Is that the _only_ entry in the exports file? The most common problem I see is people specifying a singe filesystem on more than one line. Please post the full 'exports' file and 'mount' output if there is more. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message