On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 14:53:51 -0400, Eben King wrote: > I have this machine "alexandria". It mounts a directory from the nas > via NFS. When I export a parent directory on alexandria, the mount > point appears empty, even though you can ssh to it and see everything > there that should be. How do I get it to share the contents of that mount?
As I understand it, you have three machines: alexandria (a), nas (n) and another client (c). You have shared a directory from n, and mounted it on a (at /foo/bar). Meanwhile, you have shared directory /foo from a, and mounted it on c. I believe all of these shares and mounts are using NFS. If I understand correctly, you are wondering why c cannot see the contents of /foo/bar which is only shared between n and a. In essence, what you are asking is "how can I re-share an NFS share that I'm mounting as a client, to another client". To the best of my knowledge, this is not possible. However, what *is* possible, because I've done it, is to mount an NFS share and then share that via Samba. If you mount your NAS share at /foo/bar on a, and then share /foo via Samba, which is a userspace file server, any client mounting that share will see the contents of /foo/bar the way you expect them to. If you need c to see the contents of n's share using NFS, then c should mount the share directly from n, and not go through a.
