Re: Here's One - NFS - Mounting Over Share = Nada

On 4/3/25 2:48 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-04-03 19:08, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 03/04/2025 16:27, c186282 wrote:

On 4/3/25 8:07 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-04-03 11:51, c186282 wrote:

  

Ahh. You need to add the 'crossmnt' directive to the servers /etc/ exports file for the whatever it is you are mounting
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Then it will work the way you want it to

 Right, because he is trying to export the parent directory. I export the mount points directly.
         crossmnt
               This option is similar to nohide but  it
               makes  it possible for clients to access
               all filesystems mounted on a  filesystem
               marked with crossmnt.  Thus when a child
               filesystem "B" is mounted  on  a  parent
               "A", setting crossmnt on "A" has a simi-
               lar effect to setting "nohide" on B.
                With nohide the child  filesystem  needs
               to   be   explicitly   exported.    With
               crossmnt it need not.  If a child  of  a
               crossmnt  file  is  not  explicitly  ex-
               ported, then it will be  implicitly  ex-
               ported  with  the same export options as
               the  parent,  except  for  fsid=.   This
               makes  it  impossible  to  not  export a
               child of a crossmnt filesystem.  If some
               but not all subordinate filesystems of a
               parent are to  be  exported,  then  they
               must be explicitly exported and the par-
               ent should not have crossmnt set.
                The nocrossmnt option can explictly dis-
               able  crossmnt if it was previously set.
               This is rarely useful.

   Ralf's fix DID fix it all.
   Just two more near-duplicate /etc/export lines - but
   explicitly pointing where the USBs are mounted - did
   the trick neatly. On client it all still shows up
   under the blanket /mnt/shar
   I'll fool with crossmnt and nohide too, but for the moment
   I'm happy and can get on with more uses of this mini-NAS.
   Still room for two more USB drives in the Sabrient fixture.
   This is the BeeLink Mini-S with the N150 I recently bought,
   replacing two BMax N95 boxes with CPU to spare. DO note
   that the Mini-S does NOT have room/connectors for an
   internal SATA drive ... so I bought the one with 1tb
   nv ram so there'd still be plenty of onboard storage.
   Still under $200us (a few weeks ago anyhow, after
   tariff plans who the hell knows ?). Our Euro/UK people
   here can likely still get one cheap. Also note that
   'regular' MX won't boot properly on it - gotta use
   the MX-AHS version that's got more/newer drivers
   and kernel. Considered Fedora, but I know Debs
   a bit better.
   Figured there HAD to be a solution to this NFS thing,
   though didn't expect this one.