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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NFS exports question
Date: 16 Oct 1996 01:00:59 +0100
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In article <stanbDz8rtG.I37@netcom.com>,
stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) writes:
: I would like to set up my FreeBSD machine so that I can access
: all the filesystems on it from a reomte machine via an automounter.
: I other woreds, I have 3 filesystems / , /usr. and /var. I would
: like then all to appear on the remote machine as /net/mach_name/....
:
: So for instance I could do a cd to /net/machine_name/usr/spool
: and be in that directory on the FreeBSD machine. Linux dose this by default
: if you export / you get all the filesystems mounted on it exported as
: one big filesyste,.
:
: I thought that I could do something like this with the -alldirs
: option in /etc/exports, but it doesn't seem to wokr the way I thought it
: would. Am I using this incorectly ? If so how can I acheive the desired
: result ?
You need to export the individual physical mount points, and mount each
of these from the remote machine. You can export at most one subdirectory
of a given physical mountpoint.
This is a good reason to make all you symlinks relative !
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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