Also, some more stuff I've been noticing: 1) My understanding was that /var/lib/nfs/xtab was the file actually consulted by mountd to respond to an nfs mount request. Interestingly, that file only contains the info on /home, but not on the /shared export, even though /etc/exports includes both.
The same directory has a file called etab, and that file does contain both exports. Issuing exportfs -a -v prints out two lines, indicating both exports are being processed, but xtab doesn't change. I don't understand this. exportfs -r gives the same behavoir. I tried exporting another directory (/tmp) by adding it to /etc/exports and reissuing exportfs -a -> the new export got added to etab but not xtab, and in any case I could not mount the new share either - same connection refused error from the workstation. 2) I thought maybe the problem was that the /shared mount point is Reiserfs, thinking (without good reason) that maybe there is a problem with nfs exporting reiser filesystems, but the /tmp export I experimented with is ext2 (as is /home, the export that seems to work, at least for now). I suspect there is something wrong with mountd, and that it died after letting me mount the one export that works, but I cannot figure out what it is. There are no error messages in syslog to help me. nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]