Actually the line should read servername:/export/clientname -maproot=root
servername

sorry,

stephen

----------
> From: Stephen Eastman <seastman@uswest.net>
> To: Greg Evans <raisplin@rcn.com>; NetBSD List <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
> Subject: Re: Exporting filesystem??
> Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 6:43 PM
> 
> I have been trying to get a sun to boot from nfs and finally got it
right.
> As far as I can tell there are some errors in both the diskless and
exports
> manual pages.
> For instance I would get an illegal option error when trying to use the
> -alldirs option (mentioned in the exports manual page) when starting the
> mountd daemon.  The diskless page also gives an example of putting
multiple
> lines for the same client in the exports file.  This is clearly forbidden
> in the exports manual page and indeed I get an error when trying it. I
also
> tried to specify clients using the network address option as you are
doing
> but could not get it to work (even after following the manual page)  I
> would recommend to make sure you don't get any errors when starting up
> mountd. Try mounting the nfs directory from the the host itself (you can
> just add a line in /etc/exports as follows      
> servername:/export/clientname  -maproot=root   clientname
> 
> and then type mountd   and then  mount_nfs servername:/export/clientname 

> /mnt
> and see if the mount directory is accessible at /mnt.  If you can do
this,
> you know nfs is properly enabled at least for the host machine itself.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Stephen
> ----------
> > From: Greg Evans <raisplin@rcn.com>
> > To: NetBSD List <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
> > Subject: Exporting filesystem??
> > Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 11:38 PM
> > 
> > Hi gang,
> > 
> > New questions..
> > 
> > I am trying to NFS mount a directory on my NetBSD box so that I can 
> > install RedHat Linux on another Machine (yeah..don't ask)...
> > 
> > so far what I have done is
> > 
> > /etc/exports I added the following line
> > 
> > /RHLinux -ro -maproot=root -network 192.168.1.0 -mask 255.255.255.0
> > 
> > this is so that hopefully only machines on my internal network can
access
> 
> > this directory.
> > 
> > then I started mountd with /usr/sbin/mountd and then nfsd with 
> > /usr/sbin/nfsd -tun 4
> > 
> > (this is what I saw in the FAQ for Diskless NEtBSD HOW-TO) for starting

> > the correct daemons.
> > 
> > so now I try to use the Linux installer disks to get to the directory
and
> 
> > so far it is yet to work.  have I done something wrong?  or do I just
not
> 
> > know wher eto look in the FAQ for the proper information?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Greg