>> How can one get both entries to work? > > By having them on different filesystems. You can't have diferent options > on different directories exported from the same filesystem. > > See "BUGS" in exports(5).
Thanks Stuart for pointing that out. I did read it but I didn't really understand it at the time (which is likely my fault). On that, does the example in the exports(5) not give a contradictory option as a valid example when it is not? For example: /usr /usr/local -maproot=0:10 friends /usr -maproot=daemon grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca 131.104.48.16 /usr -ro -mapall=nobody /u -maproot=bin: -network=131.104.48 -mask=255.255.255.0 /u2 -maproot=root friends /u2 -alldirs -network=cis-net -mask=cis-mask Given that /usr, /u and /u2 are local filesystem mount points, the above example specifies the following: /usr is exported to hosts friends where friends is specified in the netgroup file with users mapped to their remote credentials and root mapped to UID 0 and GID 10. It is exported read-write and the hosts in “friends” can mount either /usr or /usr/local. It is exported to 131.104.48.16 and grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca with users mapped to their remote credentials and root mapped to the user and groups associated with “daemon”; it is exported to the rest of the world as read-only with all users mapped to the user and groups associated with “nobody”. It seems to indicate you can export /usr with an option of -maproot=0:10 to some hosts, while exporting the same /usr local FS to another host with a different option of -maproot=daemon . Is that wrong in the man page? Or is it because they are being exported to different hosts.