>> 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.
>
>You basically must have the same _options_ for each exported directory
>that shares a common file system on the server. 
>e.g.:
>  /home/export/root -maproot=0 host1 host2
>  /home/export/swap -maproot=0 host3
>
>This should work fine, sinces the options are matching.

actually, i think the options are anything you put after the name of
the file system.

also note that the original post had a three line exports file, but
complaints from mountd regarding lines 5, 6, and 7, and the address
127.0.0.1.  i think there's more to this than just what we see.  :)

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