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Problem exporting to /etc/fstab
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| Is there any reason why I can't export an NFS file system to /etc/fstab?
As far as I'm aware, NFS is running correctly. When I execute
/usr/sbin/exportfs -a -v the command line says it exported properly, but
there's no new line in the fstab file.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
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| Boris Glawe wrote:quote:
> Skip wrote:
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> In /etc/fstab you find those directories, that you want to mount. With
> exportfs, you grant access to other machines to mount files from your
> computer. Your are the server then and the clients want to mount
> something from you.
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> If you want to grant access to the machine "punky", you have to add an
> entry to /etc/exports (NOT /etc/fstab), which looks like
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> /shared_directory punky(no_root_squash,rw,async)
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> After having added this entry, you use exportfs -ra to tell the nfsd,
> that punky may mount/access this directory.
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> As an alternative to adding a line to /etc/exports, you can directly
> grant access to a certain directory with the exportfs command (see man
> exportfs).
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> If you want to mount a directory from another machine, you will have to
> edit /etc/fstab manually. Add a line like
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> fileserver:/shared_directory /imported_directory nfs defaults 0 0
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> Don't ask me, want "0 0" at the end of the lie means, you append them.
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> you can then mount the directory with
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> mount /shared_directory
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> given, that "fileserver" has granted you acces by adding you to it's
> /etc/exports, and executing "exportfs -ra" as I explained above..
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> greets Boris
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Thanks Boris. The solution was quite simple. I did not have the
"no_root_squash" option enable in my /etc/exports file, so it was
preventing my client from mounting the shared filesystem.
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