On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:53:29PM -0400, Andrew Brown wrote:

> i'm guessing that those three are all part of the same physical file
> system.  each file system can only "exported" once.  if this is so,
> change your /etc/exports file to:
> 
> /export/client -alldirs -maproot=root:wheel nfs.client.com.au
> 
> and you should be good to go.

Hmm, if the only choices are:

	* export one directory
	* export all directories

then I think the behaviour is particularly broken (and the error
mentioned didn't even come close to describing the real problem or
cause, which doesn't help).

There are countless situations where it is necessary to export more
than one directory, but not appropriate to export the whole file
system. This is a reasonable fundamental requirement of an NFS server,
and the fact it isn't possible seems rather bizarre.

or did I misinterpret?

g.