Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 11:12:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Cc: nwestfal@Vorlon.odc.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NFS problems with 960801-SNAP Message-ID: <199609280912.LAA17091@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960928095721.4949A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> from Narvi at "28. Sep. 96 10:00:46"
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> On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Neal Westfall wrote:
>
> > I am having trouble getting mountd to read my exports file
> > properly, and I don't have a clue what is wrong with it.
> >
> > Here is my exports file:
[..]
> > # You should replace these lines with your actual exported filesystems.
> > /home/business vorlon
> > /home/resell vorlon
If business and resell are subdirectories in one filesystem /home,
try instead the following line:
/home/business /home/resell vorlon
^ SPACE ^ TAB
> > But mountd always complains with this:
> >
> > Sep 27 17:41:22 narn mountd[83]: Can't change attributes for /home/resell.
> > Sep 27 17:41:22 narn mountd[83]: Bad exports list line /home/resell vorlon
[..]
>
> Isn't it possible that there is only the /home filesystem and the
> /home/business and /home/resell are not separate filesystems but just
> subdirectories? If so, the command above "seems" (I have not tested) to
> export /home - and with the second line, you are instructing it to
> reexport it. It would be real good if you could export any directory
> you like and be not limited to mountpoints, as the situation seems to be.
Robert
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