From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 10 14:43:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA27463 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 May 1996 14:43:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA27441 Fri, 10 May 1996 14:43:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199605102143.OAA27441@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NFS To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 14:43:37 -0700 (PDT) Cc: compland@ism.com.br, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199605102048.NAA02631@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at May 10, 96 01:48:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I nfs mounted a directory. The problem is that I don't want the users > > going down the tree from that directory. I mean I want the users just to > > see the nfs exported directory and it's subdirectories. How can I do that ? > > "subdirectories" == "going down the tree from that directory". > > I don't understand what you want... probably no one else does, either, > since I don't see any other responses. going towards root (cd ..) is my gues as to what he means by "going down the tree from that directory" (envision a directory tree with root at the bottom, where a tree's roots are ;) the users on the mahcine that mounts teh nfs exported directory cannot cd .. *on my filesystem* from the exported directory. (eg if i export /home/jmb/Papers/usenix from my machine to yours, you will not be able to access /home/jmb/Papers) they can, of course, cd .. on your filesystem (eg you mounted /home/jmb/Papers/usenix as /home/techreports/usenix, they will be able to cd .. to /home/techreports) jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/