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From: ftw@quasar..westford.ccur.com (Farrell Woods)
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Subject: Re: X, nfs/exportfs problems
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Date: 14 Mar 90 00:37:43 GMT
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In article <9903@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> rogerj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda) writes:

>If we mount the Optical Drive under / [as in /OpticalDisk] on the server
>and export /, can't people nfs mount the Optical Drive on their local hosts?

No, they can't.

In your /etc/exports file, you must have the pathname of each mounted
filesystem you wish to export.  In fact, I'm using a Sony magneto-optical
disk myself.  My exports file looks like:

/
/laser

Where /laser is where I have the MO disk mounted when I'm running multi-user.

Add /OpticalDisk (or whatever) to your exports file, and other users should
then be able to mount it.
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