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From: Werner Griessl <croot@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de>
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Subject: Re: Quick NFS question
To: blair@strech.cyber-naut.com (Blair Schmittel)
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 09:27:02 +0000 ()
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In-Reply-To: <199607242222.QAA19990@strech.cyber-naut.com> from Blair Schmittel at "Jul 24, 96 04:22:01 pm"
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> 
> Hello;
> 
> I have a question on exporting NFS filesystems.  Is only possible to
> export partitions, such as /, and /usr.  What I want to do is export
> /usr/two, but I keep getting a permision denied error.
> 
> Thanks,
> Blair
> 

You can use the -alldirs option in /etc/exports .
For example
"/usr    -maproot=0 -alldirs hostlist"
will allow /usr/two to mount via nfs from hosts in hostlist.

Werner
P.S.: Don't forget to set "nfs_server=YES" in /etc/sysconfig !