Exporting a vfat mount via NFS -- is it possible?

[Robert]

My home network consists of my personal FC1 box, "mavis", and a dual 
boot Win98/FC2 box ("clem") that I have set up primarily for great 
grandkids when they come over. It also gives the Old Man a chance to 
play around with stuff like samba, nfs and vnc. Both access the internet 
via a Linksys router and DSL modem.


My home directory on clem is mounted at /mnt/nfs on mavis. (Works fine.) 
This is the fstab on mavis, my personal box. Because clem dual boots, 
there are also smbfs entries which are, for this discussion, irrevelant.


[root at mavis root]# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda2               /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
/dev/hda1               /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    
noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/hdb2               /mnt/hdb                ext3    noauto,users,rw 0 0
/dev/cdrom1             /mnt/cdrom1             udf,iso9660 
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
//clem/c                /mnt/clemc              smbfs   
noauto,users,rw,credentials=/home/rj/credentials,umask=000
//clem/a                /mnt/clema              smbfs   
noauto,users,rw,credentials=/home/rj/credentials,umask=000
clem:/home/rj           /mnt/nfs                nfs     
rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr

To make the directory available, I have this in clem's /etc/exports
[root at clem root]# cat /etc/exports
/home/rj        192.168.1.8(rw,sync)

This works fine.  Now then, over on clem I have this old Win95 drive 
that is partitioned into 5, all 5 partitions mounted at mount points 
under /home/rj (/home/rj/mnt/c1, /home/rj/mnt/c5 etc).  Here is the 
fstab from clem:

[root at clem root]# cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda5               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    
noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/hdc1               /home/rj/mnt/c1         vfat    auto,users,ro
/dev/hdc5               /home/rj/mnt/c5         vfat    auto,users,ro
/dev/hdc6               /home/rj/mnt/c6         vfat    auto,users,ro
/dev/hdc7               /home/rj/mnt/c7         vfat    auto,users,ro
/dev/hdc8               /home/rj/mnt/c8         vfat    
auto,users,rw,uid=rj,gid=rj
[root at clem root]#

Notice that the last entry is different than the other four.  If & when 
I get it to work like I want, they'll all look alike.

At mavis, I can see the mount points
[rj at mavis mnt]$ ls -l /mnt/nfs/mnt
total 20
drwxrwxr-x    2 rj       rj           4096 Jun  9 20:18 c1
drwxrwxr-x    2 rj       rj           4096 Jun  9 20:18 c5
drwxrwxr-x    2 rj       rj           4096 Jun  9 20:18 c6
drwxrwxr-x    2 rj       rj           4096 Jun  9 20:18 c7
drwxrwxr-x    2 rj       rj           4096 Jun  9 20:18 c8
[rj at mavis mnt]$

But I can't see inside:
[rj at mavis mnt]$ ls -l /mnt/nfs/mnt/c8
total 0
[rj at mavis mnt]$

However, at clem, I can do what I want to with the same drive:
[rj at clem rj]$ ls -l /home/rj/mnt/c8 | head -16
total 387628
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rj rj  1127137 Feb 16  1998 0136.mov
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rj rj     2141 Nov  7  1998 205_240_207_91.html
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rj rj    14983 Mar 22  1998 28800-baud.shtml
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rj rj    45056 Nov  8  1997 2.html
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rj rj    15688 Aug 23  1998 384.gif
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rj rj    20360 Aug 23  1998 385.gif
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rj rj     1131 Nov  5  1998 3comside.htm
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rj rj  2945024 Apr 11  1998 3d295069.exe
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rj rj    29582 Dec 25  1997 562fifty.mid
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rj rj    51615 Nov 13  1997 9045b.gif
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rj rj   219493 Nov 13  1997 9045c.gif
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rj rj    81556 Sep 22  1998 911ch1.wav
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rj rj   167743 Feb 25  1998 9685.zip
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rj rj  3198745 Jul 29  1998 9918a.exe
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rj rj    37712 Jan  7  1999 a9928src.zip
[rj at clem rj]$

or this:

[rj at clem rj]$ tree