On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 23:47, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 05:45:33PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > > I want to NFS share /usr/ports and /usr/src from a master machine for use > > by other machines. <snip> > > What am I doing wrong? > > You've probably got /usr/ports and /usr/src on the same disk > partition. You can't export two chunks of the same partition to the > same set of client hosts with different flags. Not only that, but you > can't do anything that even smacks of changing the flags between two > exported subdirectories on a single partition. Or in other words, > it's the partition that gets exported, rather than the particular > directory trees you specify. I think, although I could be wrong, that > if you export, say, /usr/src which happens to reside on the /usr > partition, then an NFS client can be persuaded to access files from > anywhere on the /usr partition. > > What you should do is put the two subdirectories on the same line in > the exports file: > > /usr/ports /usr/src -network 192.168.0.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 > > Cheers, > > Matthew Thanks for a very clear explanation Matthew. I'd missed a couple of critical points, namely that you can only have one line in exports per filesystem, and also that you can specify multiple paths on one line.
Problem solved! Cheers, Tom _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
