NFS /etc/exports question..

Adam J Richardson fatman at crackmonkey.us
Tue Aug 21 15:50:08 PDT 2007


Glenn Sieb wrote:
> I've recently reclaimed a Gentoo server and turned it into a FreeBSD
> 6.2-RELEASE system (::sounds of cheering::).
> 
> This is our file server, using NFS, and I had a question about /etc/exports:
> 
<snip>
> 
> Granted, this wasn't an issue in Linux--I used to have machines listed by
> name (*.sub.olddomain.com), and had the exceptions listed with the
> no_root_squash parameter.
> 
> So, basically.. what am I missing? :-/ Any help would be greatly
> appreciated. Google & man 5 exports have not been my friends today :-/
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Best,
> --Glenn

Hi Glenn,

Have you checked for symlinks? NFS doesn't like symlinks for some 
reason. That held my /etc/exports up for a while.

HtH,
Adam J Richardson


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