On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Linux World 999 wrote:
Having studied the various comments, the reason the windows directories are not visible could be due to the mixed file systems being exported. As the server directory is mounted at root (/) level, the Linux directories are visible but not FAT32 (windows).
If the windows directories are separately exported on the server, the windows directories are visible on the client machine.
Is my thinking correct?
I don't think it is, but I have no documentation to prove it. I am only going on my personal experience: * I have a SuSE 8.0 system running the standard 2.4.18-4GB kernel * I have a minimal exports file, exporting / to my home private subnet with (rw) options only. * I have a FAT16 (not FAT32) windows partition that I mount as type=vfat * I do not use the 'nohide' option * I can NFS mount my exported root filesystem and see the mounted vfat filesystem below it. I suspect your problem stems from the 'root_squash' option in /etc/exports and the fact that root is the owner of the VFAT32 mounted files. You might try changing the uid parameter to "nobody" rather than root in the VFAT32 filesystem mount. Jim