From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 29 22:36:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from john.kaldor.com.au (christo.kaldor.com.au [203.58.23.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0633152D6 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 22:36:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from a.barnes@kaldor.com.au) Received: from orpheus (orpheus.kaldor.com.au [203.58.23.227]) by john.kaldor.com.au (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA08755; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:36:09 +1000 (EST) X-FAX-Resolution: 196 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990930153435.00c86c20@mail.kaldor.com.au> X-Sender: barnesa@mail.kaldor.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:36:11 +1000 To: cjclark@home.com From: Andrew Barnes Subject: Re: Problem with NFS Cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, bugs@bugs.au.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199909300408.AAA02052@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <4.2.0.58.19990930135037.00b6c3c0@mail.kaldor.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG G'day All, My Thanks to Crist J. Clark for his solution (below)... a trap for young players all right :-) Thanks also the everyone else who replied! Regards, Andrew Barnes At 00:08 30/09/99 -0400, Crist J. Clark wrote: >Andrew Barnes wrote, > > Hey there! > > > > At 23:45 29/09/99 -0400, you wrote: > > >Andrew Barnes wrote, > > > > > >Besides the fact that doing a '-mapall=root' seems to be... how to > > >phrase this... seems to me to be insane, I do not see any obvious > > >problems with the exports file. > > > > agreed!!! but I thought I'd see what'd happen if I put it in! > > > > > > >What does 'showmount -e' show when executed on the FreeBSD box? > > > > Exports list on localhost: > > /usr/local/universe 192.0.1.100 192.0.1.110 203.58.23.226 > > > > interesting... I wonder why it hasn't exported it? > >Ah-ha! You naughty person, you did not show us your _entire_ >/etc/exports. You broke one of the most commonly overlooked NFS export >list rules. From exprots(5), > > "Each line in the file (other than comment lines that begin with a #) > specifies the mount point(s) and export flags within one local server > filesystem for one or more hosts." > >Trim the parenthetical statement and some other complexities to gain >some clarity and we realize, "each line in the file specifies the >mount point(s) within _/ONE/_ [my epmhasis] local filesystem." I >assume you have a typical setup and /usr is a single filesystem? Then >/usr/local/universe and /usr/local/hylfax are on ONE filesystem and >must be on one line. You need to have, > >/usr/local/universe /usr/local/hylfax -mapall=root 192.0.1.100 192.0.1.110 >203.58.23.226 > >For this to work like you want. > >Again, a classic mistake. HTH. >-- >Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com -- Andrew Barnes I.T. Administrator John Kaldor Fabricmaker 110 McEvoy Street Alexandria Sydney, NSW Australia 2015 Phone: +61 2 93187727 Fax: +61 2 93187764 Email: a.barnes@kaldor.com.au URL: http://www.kaldor.com.au ICQ: 4725758 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message