NFS problems

[gerrynix]

> 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.
> 
> Have you tried to mount it from somewhere else?
> 
> Alex
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You can confirm your export with the following command:
 showmount -e
To display a list of clients that have mounted the resource:
 showmount -a
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Nix