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Date:      Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:08:34 +0100
From:      Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de>
To:        Bill Schoolcraft <runfreebsd@yahoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: nfs exporting mounted iso files ?
Message-ID:  <20051214110834.3866d6cc@TP51.local>
In-Reply-To: <20051214065756.21188.qmail@web35303.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References:  <20051214065756.21188.qmail@web35303.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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Bill Schoolcraft <runfreebsd@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have been trying to export four mounted iso images under /mnt on my
> FreeBSD-5.4 box via nfs and I can export everything under /mnt but the
> iso's don't show up on the client, only the directories.

> #########################################################
> ere is my /etc/exportfs on the FreeBSD-5.4 server

You mean /etc/exports right?
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> /mnt    -maproot=3D0  -network 192.168.1.0 -mask 255.255.255.0
>=20
> #########################################################
>=20
> Here are the mounted iso's via the mount command on the server.
>=20
> /dev/md1 on /mnt/loop1 (cd9660, local, read-only)
> /dev/md2 on /mnt/loop2 (cd9660, local, read-only)
> /dev/md3 on /mnt/loop3 (cd9660, local, read-only)
> /dev/md4 on /mnt/loop4 (cd9660, local, read-only)
>=20
> #########################################################
>=20
> On the other Unix client box I can mount the exported "/mnt" and see
> all the
> "/mnt/loop*" but no contents.
>=20
> On the other Unix client box I can also mount "/mnt/loop1" and still
> not see any contents under "/mnt/loop1"
>=20
> On the server the directories are full of contents under
>=20
> /mnt/loop1
> /mnt/loop2
> /mnt/loop3
> /mnt/loop4
>=20
> I'm thinking that I can nfs export iso filesystems on other
> flavors of Unix like systems but not on FreeBSD.
>=20
> Am I missing anything obvious or...?

NFS exports file systems, not directories.

If you put each of your mount points in
/etc/exports it should work.=20

Fabian
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http://www.fabiankeil.de/

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