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In article <krz.728034495@scorpion.ac.cowan.edu.au>, krz@cowan.edu.au (K.WOZNIAK) writes:
> 
> The "AIX Communication Handbook" (red book) proclaimes that:
> (page 260)
> "NFS system servers are easy. Basically [...] when new client hosts are added
> to the network, update the /etc/exports to allow those clients to 
> access the file systems on the NFS server"  
> 
> It simply does not work. New entries are ignored. 
> Am I forgetting about something?
 
How about running the '/usr/etc/exportfs -a' command to resync the
/etc/exports file with the /etc/xtab file.

Additional flags on the /usr/etc/exportfs command are:
   -a   All.  Exports all directories listed in the /etc/exports file.
   -v   Verbose.  Prints the name of each directory as it is exported or 
        unexported.
   -u   Unexports the directories you specify.  If used with -a, unexports
        all directories.
   -i   Ignore /etc/exports file and exports the directory specified
        on the command line.
   -o   options for the exported directory.

Possible problems on NON-WORLD exported file systems could be:

Check that the 'host' command can resolve system names correctly. 
Enter 'host hostname' and check that it show IP address correctly.
THEN.. try 'host ip.addr' using that hosts IP address and make sure that
the hostname for that IP addresses is correct.  This is VITAL for any
filesystem that is NOT exported WORLD.  Insure that multihomed (more than
one network interface card) machines have ALL IP addresses for that host 
resolve correctly back to the SAME hostname that was specified in the
/etc/exports file.  If running YP or DNS, you might need to specify the
fully qualified hostname in the /etc/exports file.

> It may be that my problem is trivial, but I can not figure out
> what is happening. In addition it seems that there is no manual 
> for NFS on our continent. 

Wipping out my RT NFS manual and looking on the cover I see:

IBM AIX/RT  Network FIle System   Version 1.2
AIX/RT Network FIle System Reference Guide
First Edition (March 1990)

Manual number is: SC23-2321

IBMLINK online PUBS lookup indicates that the manual has been obsoleted 
as of 05/92.  (It cost $22.00 U.S. Dollars originally).

It may not be available for purchase anywhere other than on a asis stock basis.

Later,
markw
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