Documentation on NFS Exports is wrong

Benjamin Kaduk bjk at FreeBSD.org
Sat Dec 19 00:50:32 UTC 2015


On Fri, 18 Dec 2015, Sebastian Schaack wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I’m new to freebsd an read the handbook a lot. Thank you , for this great work.
>
> Yesterday I setup a nfs server and tried to export /home like it is mentioned in the documentation.
>
> But after restarting the mountd service. It  reported an error in /etc/exports . I red several other blogs and finally I got it.
>
> FreeBSD doesn’t allow to export symlinks . You have to export the real path which is /usr/home/ . After changing the entry , everything worked well !
>
> I think the example on Chapter 28.3.1 /home -alldirs 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.3 10.0.0.4 should be changed, because it is not working anymore.
>
> Please correct me if I’m wrong.

You are correct -- thanks for the report; I've committed a fix just now as
r47889.

-Ben


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