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From: "Angelo Turetta" <aturetta AT commit DOT it>
To: "Nerijus Baliunas" <nerijus AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>,
   "Brian Ford" <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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Subject: Re: nfs-server 2.2.47-2
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:29:56 +0200
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nerijus Baliunas" <nerijus DOT at DOT users DOT dot DOT sourceforge DOT dot DOT net AT pvi DOT it>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 7:53 PM


> Brian Ford wrote:
>
> >>After selecting sunrpc manually and installing it, nfs-server-config
> >>installed all 3 services succesfully, but I cannot mount from
> >>neither Sun nor HP box, both give me for the first time:
> >>
> >># mount -F nfs 172.31.1.38:/tmp /c
> >>nfs mount: mount: /c: No such file or directory
> >
> > Well, did /c exist before you tried to mount on it.  AFAIK, most OSs
> > require that.
>
> Of course.
>
> Nerijus

Don't know if someone else have seen this problem. I did, and found this
message from a Google search, but no answer.
After some tests, I came to a base rule: file systems mounted without a
'real' directory behind, cannot be nfs-exported.

So, to correctly export    /c   containing the root of the C: windows drive,
you need to actually create the directory hidden behind the mountpoint.
Easier to do than to say:

Execute a 'mount' command without any parameter, you should get an output
like this:

       C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
       c: on /c type system (binmode,noumount)
       d: on /d type system (binmode,noumount)

This means that your cygwin root is actually c:\cygwin. To be able to
nfs-export any directory from the windows drives, you just need to create
'c' and 'd' directories under C:\cygwin

from DOS Command Prompt:
     md c:\cygwin\c
     md c:\cygwin\d

from cygwin shell
    mkdir /c/cygwin/c
    mkdir /c/cygwin/d

Hope this helps someone.

Ciao,
Angelo Turetta


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