NFS problems

[Rick Stevens]

Alexander Apprich wrote:
> John Dunn wrote:
> 
>> I am still having issues with NFS on redhat 9.
>>
>> My understanding is that the list of exports is held in /etc/exports and
>> running exportfs puts them in /var/lib/nfs/xtab.
>>
>> So why does the following not work? /var/lib/nfs/xtab is empty!
>>
>>
>> [root at linux1 etc]# cat /etc/exports
>> /home/sefas/director/opd4580/traffic      *(rw,insecure,sync)
>> [root at linux1 etc]# pwd
>> /etc
>> [root at linux1 etc]# exportfs -a
>> [root at linux1 etc]# cat /var/lib/nfs/xtab
>> [root at linux1 etc]# exportfs -rv
>> exporting *:/home/sefas/director/opd4580/traffic
>> [root at linux1 etc]# cat /var/lib/nfs/xtab
>> [root at linux1 etc]#
> 
> 
> AFAIK is xtab empty as long as no other machine has mounted the
> directory from this server.

That's correct.

To see if your exports are alive, do "showmount -e".  Remember, you must
also have portmapper running along with nfsd:

	service portmapper start
	service nfs start
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