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Date:      Sat, 17 Aug 1996 02:42:52 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Eric Blood <eblood@winky.reno.nv.us>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nfs problem with -alldirs 
Message-ID:  <199608170942.CAA17795@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Aug 1996 01:28:38 PDT." <308.840270518@winky> 

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>Two machines, winky (2.1.0) and wooster (May SNAP), on a local net 
>by themselves.  winky's /etc/exports file is as follows:
>
>/ -alldirs wooster
>
>It's my understanding that I should be able to mount winky:/home
>or winky:/usr as well as winky:/.  However, on wooster I get the
>following:
>
># mount winky:/home /mnt
>nfs: can't access /home: Permission denied
># mount winky:/ /mnt
>
>Am I missing something?

   Yes. -alldirs only allows you to mount arbitrary directories within a
filesystem. If you wish to export your entire filesystem hierarchy, you
must export all of the mounted filesystems.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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