From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 25 15: 8:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377F337B443 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 15:08:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4PM8Ph00633; Fri, 25 May 2001 18:08:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200105252208.f4PM8Ph00633@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Ian Dowse Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mountd: "bad exports list line /home" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 May 2001 22:57:12 BST." <200105252257.aa18471@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 18:08:25 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ian iterated > In message <200105251829.f4PIT1r00572@fac13.ds.psu.edu>, "Richard E. Hawkins" w > rites: > >mountd, on both boot and hup, gives me the message > >/home -alldirs 192.168.0.200 > Is /home the mountpoint of a filesystem? The -alldirs option allows the > remote server to mount any path in a complete filesystem, so you must > specify the filesystem mountpoint, not a subdirectory. Post the output > of "df" and "ls -ld /home" if you still can't get it to work. Ah-hah! that did it. /home is really /usr/home (as Joe wildly guessed). I can export /usr just fine. I can now successfully mount from linux, and I've managed to get networking going. I'm going to try installing debian on a virtual disk now so that I can have my /home partition back . . . but I couldn't do this until I could mount that partition by nfs (or use about 20 floppies :) thanks greatly hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message