Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: dupuy@cs.columbia.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: How do you know clients for /etc/exports? Keywords: Networks Message-ID: <1934@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 29 Sep 89 22:11:06 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 14 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 152, message 3 of 12 > ... you have the following line in /etc/exports: > /vlsi access=clients > but we found that it doesn't work! We have to state: > /vlsi -access=vlsi4 > (i.e., vlsi4 is a specific machine; note the "-" required.) You do need the -, but "/vlsi -access=clients" will work, _iff_ clients is a netgroup defined in the yellow pages (and you have to be running yellow pages for this to work). See netgroup(5) for details. @alex inet: dupuy@cs.columbia.edu uucp: ...!rutgers!cs.columbia.edu!dupuy