I've found that if there are files in use on that file system when you run
mountd that this message appears.  Usually, you need to kill all binaries
running from that file system, run mountd then restart the binaries (I usually
just reboot;)

Cheers,
james

> 
> I have two machines I'm trying to get to share resources. One of them is
> primarily a server and the other a workstation. On the server I have the
> following in the /etc/exports file:
> 
> /cdrom -ro -maproot=root derenai.wa.com
> /usr/src -maproot=root derenai.wa.com
> /usr/local -maproot=root derenai.wa.com
> /var/mail -maproot=root derenai.wa.com
> /usr/X11R6 -maproot=root derenai.wa.com
> /home -maproot=root derenai.wa.com
> 
> I get the following messages from mountd:
> 
> Apr 11 07:18:28 darykon mountd[57]: Can't change attributes for /usr/local. 
> Apr 11 07:18:28 darykon mountd[57]: Bad exports list line /usr/local -maproot
> Apr 11 07:18:28 darykon mountd[57]: Can't change attributes for /usr/X11R6. 
> Apr 11 07:18:28 darykon mountd[57]: Bad exports list line /usr/X11R6 -maproot
> 
> Also, derenai can't mount /usr/X11R6 or /usr/local, but can mount /home and
> /var/mail. The permissions and ownerships on all mount points are the same.
> I'm currently running NetBSD-1.0 on two 486 machines; one with 16M RAM and
> the other w/ 36M. Both machines have NFS_CLIENT and NFS_SERVER YES in
> /etc/netstart. Any Ideas?
> 
> Gerry Simmons
> simmons@darykon.wa.com
> 
> 
> 
>