From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 27 11:55:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA21788 for current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 11:55:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA21769 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 11:55:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA01762; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:53:17 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603271953.MAA01762@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Re-Export NFS-partition ?! To: jdli@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw (Jian-Da Li) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:53:16 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199603270452.MAA29220@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> from "Jian-Da Li" at Mar 27, 96 12:52:58 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >> >Perhaps you could tell us *why* you want to do this, and we can tell > >> >you why it's a silly idea or suggest rational alternatives... 8-). > >>=20 > >> Well, if local HD is not large enough, and wants to provide > >> NFS installation ?! (such as 2.1.0-RELEASE) > > > > Easy. mount it from the system you want to "reeexport" instead of > > from the system you want to do the "reexporting". > > Errr...I knew it..... :) > How about export NFS partitions from a machine behind the firewall ?! > :) Firewalling incoming mounts is a security problem. Firewalling outgoing mounts is an administrative mistake. In any case, I suggest you mount a CDROM locally and create a symlink tree in the NFS directory containing the mount point to allow NFS install from CDROM. Assuming you can't convince your administration that they are mistaken. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.