NFS problems

[Alexander Apprich]

John Dunn wrote:
> I am still having issues with NFS on redhat 9.
> 
> My understanding is that the list of exports is held in /etc/exports and
> running exportfs puts them in /var/lib/nfs/xtab.
> 
> So why does the following not work? /var/lib/nfs/xtab is empty!
> 
> 
> [root at linux1 etc]# cat /etc/exports
> /home/sefas/director/opd4580/traffic      *(rw,insecure,sync)
> [root at linux1 etc]# pwd
> /etc
> [root at linux1 etc]# exportfs -a
> [root at linux1 etc]# cat /var/lib/nfs/xtab
> [root at linux1 etc]# exportfs -rv
> exporting *:/home/sefas/director/opd4580/traffic
> [root at linux1 etc]# cat /var/lib/nfs/xtab
> [root at linux1 etc]#

AFAIK is xtab empty as long as no other machine has mounted the
directory from this server.

Have you tried to mount it from somewhere else?

Alex