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- From: ewilson@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Eliot Wilson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
- Subject: Re: NFS problem
- Keywords: RT, NFS 1.2
- Message-ID: <C1J3y0.B85@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 20:08:23 GMT
- References: <krz.728034495@scorpion.ac.cowan.edu.au>
- Organization: University of Cincinnati
- Lines: 35
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- In article <krz.728034495@scorpion.ac.cowan.edu.au> krz@cowan.edu.au (K.WOZNIAK) writes:
- >
- >The "AIX Communication Handbook" (red book) proclaimes that:
- >(page 260)
- >"NFS system servers are easy. Basically [...] when new client hosts are added
- >to the network, update the /etc/exports to allow those clients to
- >access the file systems on the NFS server"
- >
- >It simply does not work. New entries are ignored.
- >Am I forgetting about something?
- >
- >It may be that my problem is trivial, but I can not figure out
- >what is happening. In addition it seems that there is no manual
- >for NFS on our continent.
-
- You need to tell the daemons that are running to re-read the exports file.
- do this with the command '/usr/etc/exportfs -a' This says to add all entries
- in /etc/exports to the list of exported directories.
-
- Hope it helps,
- -ELiot
- >
- >Help will be greatly appreciated,
- >--
- >Mr Krzysztof Wozniak ,-_|\ E-mail: K.WOZNIAK@cowan.edu.au
- >Edith Cowan University / \ Phone: 61-9-370 6366
- >Mt.Lawley WA, 6050 $_,-._/ Fax: 61-9-370 2910
- >Australia o
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