Hal Vaughan wrote: > While researching some possible quirks with files accessed through NFS, I > found a few web pages telling me what to do with exportfs. The same pages > referenced doing "cat /etc/fs/nfs/exports" to see a list of exported > directories and their settings.
Hmm... Interesting. I have been using NFS for more than a decade and have never heard of that file before. I think it is somehow very distro specific. > I have an older system running Mandrake 8.x and it has exportfs and when I do > "cat /etc/fs/nfs/exports" I get a list of all the exported directories. On > my newer system, which is Debian based (running Mepis, but soon to be > replaced with Sarge), there is no exportfs and no /etc/fs/nfs/exports. Are you talking about /etc/exports? The /etc/exports file is the standard location on HPs, Suns, etc. Your other location seems non-standard. man exports > When I do an "apt-cache search exportfs" I get no answers. The 'exportfs' command is in the nfs-kernel-server package. Did you install that? apt-get install nfs-kernel-server > I have not been able to find any useful info on exportfs, other than the man > page, that might clue me in as to why exportfs is not included in the NFS > version I'm using on Debian. Is there a reason there is no exportfs in the > Debian package? You probably did not install the nfs server. Install it and you will have the exportfs command. Edit the /etc/exports and configure it for your system. Mine looks like this: / *(ro,sync) /home *(ro,sync) Bob
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