NFS export to multiple subnets

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NFS export to multiple subnets

Back in the day, you could easily export a file system and restrict it to a collection of subnets in the /etc/exports or /etc/dfs/dfstab files.

Unfortunately, the Workgroup Manager GUI seems to think that one subnet is enough. The only options are one client host, one subnet or world.

Is there a practical way to setup permissions for three subnets? World is never an option.

Xserve GS, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Jun 20, 2008 2:42 PM

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Jul 21, 2008 11:31 AM in response to sakshale

While the Mac OS X GUI admin tools don't support specifying multiple subnets, this can be done if you simply define your own exports in /etc/exports. The exports(5) man page has the details. You'll basically want to have a separate export entry for each subnet. For example, something like:

/Volumes/data -network 10.0.1.0 -mask 255.255.255.0
/Volumes/data -network 10.0.2.0 -mask 255.255.255.0
/Volumes/data -network 10.0.3.0 -mask 255.255.255.0

HTH
--macko

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