NAME

share − make local resource available for mounting by remote systems

SYNOPSIS

share [ −F FSType ] [ −o specific_options ] [ −d description ] [ pathname ]

AVAILABILITY

SUNWcsu

DESCRIPTION

The share command exports, or makes a resource available for mounting, through a remote file system of type FSType.  If the option −F FSType is omitted, the first file system type listed in /etc/dfs/fstypes is used as default.  For a description of NFS specific options, see share_nfs(1M).  pathname is the pathname of the directory to be shared.  When invoked with no arguments, share displays all shared file systems. 

OPTIONS

−F FSType Specify the filesystem type. 

−o specific_options The specific_options are used to control access of the shared resource.  (See share_nfs(1M) for the NFS specific options.)  They may be any of the following:

rwpathname is shared read/write to all clients.  This is also the default behavior. 

rw=client[:client]...pathname is shared read/write only to the listed clients.  No other systems can access resourcename. 

ropathname is shared read-only to all clients. 

ro=client[:client]...pathname is shared read-only only to the listed clients.  No other systems can access pathname. 

−d description The −d flag may be used to provide a description of the resource being shared. 

EXAMPLES

This line in /etc/dfs/dfstab will share the /disk file system read-only at boot time. 

share −F nfs −o ro /disk

Note that if a machine is not sharing any file systems, running share has no effect until you either run /etc/init.d/nfs.server start or reboot the system, both of which start up nfsd(1M) server processes. 

FILES

/etc/dfs/dfstab list of share commands to be executed at boot time

/etc/dfs/fstypes list of file system types, NFS by default

/etc/dfs/sharetab system record of shared file systems

SEE ALSO

share_nfs(1M), shareall(1M), unshare(1M)

NOTE

Export (old terminology): file system sharing used to be called exporting on SunOS 4.x, so the share command used to be invoked as exportfs or /usr/etc/exportfs. 

Sun Microsystems  —  Last change: 5 Jul 1990