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From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@arg1.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: export file for nfs ???
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 19:45:53 +0100
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Vincent Chen wrote:
> 
> >>   I have cdrom and  mo on my freebsd box. Recently I want
> >> to share these devices via nfs but never succeed. All my
> >> freebsd stuff on a single partition and have /mo and /cdrom
> >> created but these 2 device not mounted at boot time. I
> >> wrote these in /etc/export:
> >>
> >> /cdrom /mo -ro -alldirs
> >>
> >> But showmount output nothing. What is the correct entry?
> >>
> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >This is correct.  Have up -HUPd mountd ?
> >
> 
> Ya, I even tried several combination and reboot after
> every change made. But log told me only 'bad export
> line /mo /cdrom'. I am trying hard to find out a 'good'
> export line but never succeed.

You can't have two different exports lines for the same
partition.  So, your existing export lines are probably
good once you have mounted volumes onto /mo and /cdrom.
Hence you can either:

a) do the mounts of /mo and /cdrom from /etc/fstab

or

b) restart mountd after you have mounted them.