On 3/19/25 15:05, Greg Wooledge wrote:
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).
Yes.
Meanwhile, you have shared directory /foo from a, and mounted it on c.
Yes.
I believe all of these shares and mounts are using NFS.
Yes.
If I understand correctly, you are wondering why c cannot see the
contents of /foo/bar which is only shared between n and a.
Correct.
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".
Correct.
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.
I used to use SMB, but it did funny things to filenames with a colon.
These files are TV shows and movies, and colons are not infrequent. Has
it got better, or is there a config option I need to set?
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.
That was my temporary workaround. I guess it'll become a permanent
workaround.
