From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 6 20:50:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55EFE16A41F for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:50:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc2-cdif2-3-1-cust208.cdif.cable.ntl.com [82.31.78.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E322643D45 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:50:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from fenrir.wireless.private.submonkey.net ([192.168.11.23]) by shrike.submonkey.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1EuyXl-0000Wu-7S; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:50:40 +0000 In-Reply-To: References: <9D61D69E3C1F7F459C5513AD830EE2192BC1C6@mtlex01.connectalk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <5A7514E1-126F-411D-9657-24349DCDFAD3@submonkey.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ceri Davies Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:50:33 +0000 To: Michael P. Soulier X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Cc: "Webster, Andrew" , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: nfs server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:50:43 -0000 On 6 Jan 2006, at 16:33, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 1/6/06, Webster, Andrew wrote: >> Michael, >> >> If /usr/local/www is not a mount point, this will not work. You >> need to >> put the mount point (eg: /usr) in /etc/exports, and add the option >> -alldirs to allow it to mount a subdirectory of the mount point. > > It would appear that my configuration was correct in fact, but > restarting nfsd was not enough. Restarting mountd picked up the new > config and it's now working. Yep, it's mountd that reads /etc/exports. If you change that file in future, you just need to restart mountd and not nfsd. Ceri