NAME

exports − NFS file systems being exported

SYNOPSIS

/etc/exports

DESCRIPTION

The file /etc/exports describes the file systems that are being exported to NFS clients.  The system administrator creates it using a text editor.  The mountd(1M) processes it each time a mount request is received.

The file contains a list of file systems and the netgroup(4) or machine names allowed to remotely mount each file system. The file system names are left justified and followed by a list of names separated by white space. The names are looked up in /etc/netgroup and then in /etc/hosts. A file system name with no accompanying name list means the file system is available.
 
A ‘#’ anywhere in the file indicates a comment extending to the end of that line. Lines beginning with white space are continuation lines.

EXAMPLES

/usr       clients               # export to my clients
/usr/local                       # export to the world
/usr2      phoenix sun sundae    # export to only these
                                 # machines

AUTHOR

Sun Microsystems, Inc. 

FILES

/etc/exports

SEE ALSO

mountd(1M), netgroup(4). 

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