[Fwd: Re: [Samba] Exporting a samba mount]]

[Ken Schneider]

In the past you could NOT export a remotely mounted filesystem for
security reasons. Perhaps that is still the case here.


On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 08:48, Paul Yeager wrote:
> 
> Christopher and the list:
> 
> Gee... I wish it would!
> 
> My probelm currently is the fact that if I add this line to /etc/exports:
> 
> /mnt/MountedSambaShare        somebox(nohide)
> 
> I get:
> 
> somebox:/mnt/MountesSambaShare: Invalid argument
> 
> This happens whether /etc/exports says "somebox(nohide)" or 
> "somebox(ro)" or "somebox()".
> 
> Note that /mnt/MounteSambaShare is in fact properly mounted via smbmount 
> (actually a fstab entry specifying smbfs) ... no problems accessing it 
> on the machine from which I'm trying to export it via NFS.
> 
> If anyone has any clues, I'd be grateful!
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> Barry, Christopher wrote:
> 
> >Likely. Hey poking around today, I did a 'man 5 /etc/exports'. Do this yourself and look at the nohide param. Can that help you?
> >
> >-C
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Yes... lsmod shows the smbfs module running.  Kinda has to be 
> >>for me to mount the share on the local machine, right?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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Ken Schneider
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