On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:33:52AM -0500, Matt Herzog wrote:
> Hi.
> I'm still trying to get an install going
> using tpftp/nfs/rarp. I had unwittingly
> been feeding my nfsd 2 export files, having
> misused CVS ci/co commands. So now I have
> just /etc/exports and it reads:
> 
> /export/numbat    -alldirs -maproot=0:    -network 10
> 
> Do I need to specify the client's hostname?
> I'm still observing the client failing to find the 
> kernel. Also I see this in my server's syslog:
> 
> Feb 20 11:10:20 pobble rpcbind: cannot create socket for udp6
> Feb 20 11:10:20 pobble rpcbind: cannot create socket for tcp6
> Feb 20 11:10:21 pobble mountd[124]: "/export/numbat    -alldirs
> -maproot", line 
> 1: Could not remount /export/numbat: Invalid argument
> Feb 20 11:10:22 pobble rpc.lockd: Starting

You can only export -alldir a whole filesystem, not a subset of it.
So you need to export -alldirs '/export' (or / if /export isn't a separate
partition).
For diskless clients I usually only exports the mount points, for only
that client.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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