On Tue Oct 16 10:32:15 2001 Dave Sherohman wrote...
>
>On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:38:03AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
>> I'm trying to use a potato machien as an NFS server. I have installed:
>>
>> nfs-common
>> nfs-server
>>
>> And I have no /etc/exports file, nor nfsd, at least "which nfsd" doesn't
>> find it.
>>
>> Do I need some other package?
>
>No. /etc/exports is a list of which directories you want to share
>(export) via NFS. This is extremely system-specific, so it can't
>reasonably come from a package. You have to create it yourself. See
>man 5 exports for information on this file's format.
Right, but on another Debian system that I checked, _something_ had
creaated a templeat fiel there.
>
>As for the NFS daemon, the executable is named rpc.nfsd rather than
>just nfsd.
Figured that out. But it still does not work. Seems like I remeber Linux
needing some special flag to make bfs work the way the rest of the world
works. Ring any bells?
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