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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!daily-planet.execpc.com!homer.alpha.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!gatech!sdd.hp.com!hamblin.math.byu.edu!park.uvsc.edu!usenet From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: exporting File system Date: 11 Jan 1996 20:52:52 GMT Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4d3tb4$e4l@park.uvsc.edu> References: <4d0tde$jgs@overload.lbl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: hecate.artisoft.com jin@eubie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) wrote: ] Under FreeBSD, it seems that there is no way to export /usr/local/src and ] /usr/local/share unless export the entire /usr/local. ] If /etc/exports contains such lines: ] /usr/local/share -ro -mapall=nobody:100 -network 128.3.xxx -mask 255.255.xxx.0 ] /usr/local/src -ro -mapall=nobody:100 -network 128.3.xxx -mask 255.255.xxx.0 man exports [ ... ] In a mount entry, the first field(s) specify the directory path(s) within a server filesystem that can be mounted on by the corresponding client(s). There are two forms of this specification. The first is to list all mount points as absolute directory paths separated by whitespace. The second is to specify the pathname of the root of the filesystem followed by the -alldirs flag; this form allows -----------------------------------^^^^^^^^ the host(s) to mount at any point within the filesystem, including regular files if the ``-r'' option is used on --------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ mountd. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.