this is how i solved it:

/pub/pub -mapall=root -ro colossus.cs.wits.ac.za

is my exports file

nfsd -tun 1

is the incantation to get one daemon only

and this is a good little quickscript i made to test the file until it
didn't whine anymore:


#!/bin/sh
kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`
showmount -e

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