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Date:      Thu, 11 Feb 1999 20:50:42 +1000
From:      Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au>
To:        Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS 
Message-ID:  <19990211105043.25789.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902101557440.18973-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>  of Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:58:41 EST
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902101557440.18973-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net> 

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[Reformatted for clarity: please take the time to put your
comments where they belong rather than just sticking them at the
top of the whole original message.]

> > > Also, I am trying to set up amd, but first I just want to be able to mount
> > > the share.  I can't get a second machine to mount the first machine's home
> > > directory.
> > > 
> > > My exports are:
> > > 
> > > /usr/src        -maproot=root   secondmachine
> > > /usr/home/auser   -maproot=root     secondmachine
> > > 
> > > I can mount -t nfs firstmachine:/usr/src, but not /usr/home/auser.
> > 
> > If /usr/home/auser is not a separate file system, this won't
> > work unless you use the "-alldirs" option documented in the
> > exports(5) man page.
>
> Actually you can, just specify them on the same line like:
> 
> /usr /usr/whatever -maproot=...

My mistake, thanks for pointing it out.  I've never read that
part of the man page as meaning this, but a check shows that's
what it says (albeit not too clearly) and that's what it does.

-- 
Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>


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