From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 11 18: 2:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF37237B755 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 18:02:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool0509.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.251.254]) by emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA08764; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 18:02:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA00451; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 18:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 18:00:54 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Daniel Schrock Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS problems Message-ID: <20000611180054.D204@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <00b501bfd3d3$1af901f0$0271a8c0@anonymousdaemon.org> <20000611115058.B179@dialin-client.earthlink.net> <00ed01bfd408$c1072100$0271a8c0@anonymousdaemon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <00ed01bfd408$c1072100$0271a8c0@anonymousdaemon.org>; from dschrock@enteract.com on Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 07:54:24PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 07:54:24PM -0500, Daniel Schrock wrote: > Crist, you rock!! > > The -alldirs flag was the problem...once I removed it, all was good! > I was under the impression that you couldn't descend father into the > directories with out it. > After testing, I found that not to be true. Yea! The -alldirs allows any arbitrary directory above that being exported to be used as the mount point. For example, if you export on 'server,' /usr -alldirs otherhost Then on otherhost, the following should work, mount server:/usr/local /usr/local_server Provided the directories exist on the respective machines. > All is well. > Thanks a million! Not sure why that would have fixed your problem, but glad it did. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message