[Sussex] Help with NFS

[Karl E. Jorgensen]

Upon a 2nd reading of the mail, somethin stood out...

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:29:59PM +0000, David Chapman wrote:
> ...
> I have my machine which is SuSE 9.2 which I want to 
> share /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt (this is were downloaded updates are stored) to 
> the other 2 computers that run SuSE
> When I try to add this to the computer my boys use (nitrogen.home.lan) my 
> computer does not show up as hydrogen.home.lan  but will show as 
> 192.xxx.xxx.xxx
> trying to mount this share ends with connection refused by server.
> 
> contents of /etc/exports
> /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/	192.168.0.*(ro,sync)

According to exports(5) wildcards are not reliable when used with IP
addresses. So you may want to try:
    /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/	192.168.0.0/24(ro,sync)
or
    /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/ 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(ro,sync)
instead

Hope this helps

-- 
Karl E. Jørgensen
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