Eben King <e...@gmx.us> wrote: > 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.
It's not a workaround. It's expected behaviour. You told the NAS to share some of its contents with alexandria. That's what it's doing. Why would you expect it to respond to a random request from some other computer? Alternatively, why would you expect alexandria to share content that doesn't belong to it?
