Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:36:11 +1000 From: Andrew Barnes <a.barnes@kaldor.com.au> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, bugs@bugs.au.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with NFS Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19990930153435.00c86c20@mail.kaldor.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199909300408.AAA02052@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <4.2.0.58.19990930135037.00b6c3c0@mail.kaldor.com.au>
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G'day All,
My Thanks to Crist J. Clark for his solution (below)... a trap for young
players all right :-)
Thanks also the everyone else who replied!
Regards,
Andrew Barnes
At 00:08 30/09/99 -0400, Crist J. Clark wrote:
>Andrew Barnes wrote,
> > Hey there!
> >
> > At 23:45 29/09/99 -0400, you wrote:
> > >Andrew Barnes wrote,
> > >
> > >Besides the fact that doing a '-mapall=root' seems to be... how to
> > >phrase this... seems to me to be insane, I do not see any obvious
> > >problems with the exports file.
> >
> > agreed!!! but I thought I'd see what'd happen if I put it in!
> >
> >
> > >What does 'showmount -e' show when executed on the FreeBSD box?
> >
> > Exports list on localhost:
> > /usr/local/universe 192.0.1.100 192.0.1.110 203.58.23.226
> >
> > interesting... I wonder why it hasn't exported it?
>
>Ah-ha! You naughty person, you did not show us your _entire_
>/etc/exports. You broke one of the most commonly overlooked NFS export
>list rules. From exprots(5),
>
> "Each line in the file (other than comment lines that begin with a #)
> specifies the mount point(s) and export flags within one local server
> filesystem for one or more hosts."
>
>Trim the parenthetical statement and some other complexities to gain
>some clarity and we realize, "each line in the file specifies the
>mount point(s) within _/ONE/_ [my epmhasis] local filesystem." I
>assume you have a typical setup and /usr is a single filesystem? Then
>/usr/local/universe and /usr/local/hylfax are on ONE filesystem and
>must be on one line. You need to have,
>
>/usr/local/universe /usr/local/hylfax -mapall=root 192.0.1.100 192.0.1.110
>203.58.23.226
>
>For this to work like you want.
>
>Again, a classic mistake. HTH.
>--
>Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
--
Andrew Barnes
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