Umm, off hand I think you are getting hit by a small "feature" in
/etc/exports. You can only export a whole device.

e.g. say I have wd0e mounted on /home on the server. You can export
"/home" but not "/home/paul". However if you want to be able to mount
"/home/paul" directly on the client look into the "-alldirs" flag in the
exports(5) manpage. So my /etc/exports file looks like:

    /home -maproot=root -alldirs 172.17.8.31 192.168.25.4

(not -maproot=root is not a good idea on a non-trusted network, hence
why Ive limited it to two machines that can access the mount point -
both machines that I control and thus machines I know who root is. You
will probably want to either not have maproot or have it set to "nobody"
for safety).

Paul

M.E.Clinch wrote:

> Can any one explain what is going wrong please?
> This is the exports file on our Cats netBSD machine.
> It is to act as a server so we can NFS mount a server
> directory at boot time.
> /export/pcnfs has to be NFS mountable for printing to
> the central printer.
>
> "/etc/exports"
> +++++++++++++++++++++
> / pgc mec
> /export/pcnfs
> /home
> /usr pgc
> /user1/alpha
> /user2/IT/mec
> /user2/IT/pgc
> /user2/STAFF/
> +++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> I can mount / ok.
> I can not mount /exports/pcnfs Insufficient access.
> I can mount /user1/alpha  ok
> I can not mount /user2/IT/mec  Insufficient access.
> I can mount /user2/IT      ok.
>
> Please some on, please tell me why. What is so different for
> Sys V exports?
>
>  mike
>
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