Thankyou Bret and Thornton.

Now it IS working. I had to export/mount /home/ftp/pub/slack/install
seperately.

Regards,

Uk

Bret Hughes wrote:
> 
> UK Jaiswal wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a linux server(192.168.0.1) which has iso-images of various
> > CD-ROMs. Now I have mounted these iso images on directories residing in
> > /home/ftp/pub and /var/www/html so that people in our intranet may
> > access the CDs via anonymous ftp or http (in fact I use the service to
> > install linux(red-hat) on machines through ftp/http using just a
> > floppy).
> > Now I wanted to access those CDs through NFS also (basically for network
> > installation of slackware using nfs) and so I put /home/ftp/pub in
> > /etc/exports with ro option and started the nfs server.
> > /home/iso/Slackware-7.1-install.iso has been mounted on
> > /home/ftp/pub/slack/install directory and I can see all the files and
> > directories of the cd in /home/ftp/pub/slack/install locally and through
> > ftp from a client m/c.
> > When I mount (thru NFS) 192.168.0.1:/home/ftp/pub on some directory in a
> > client m/c, I see that I am not able to see anything in
> > /home/ftp/pub/slack/install directory. So NFS client is just able to
> > access the actual files/directories inside the directory mounted but not
> > what the server itself has mounted in one of those directories.
> > I would appreciate any suggestion in this regard.
> 
> I believe you will need to export (and nfs mount)
> /home/ftp/pub/slack/install seperately since these are seperate
> filesystems.
> 
> I ran into a similar learning experience a while back where I mounted a new
> partition pretty deep into a dir tree to give it some more space, and could
> not see the new partiton after mounting it.  To add insult to injury, if I
> created a flie in the directory seen from the client in to the tree below
> the new partition mount, I could not see it from the server since there was
> a partitio mounted over it.  It effectively hid the file from the server.
> Gave me a headache trying to figure out what the *#$^% was going on.  As I
> said, a learning experience :)
> 
> HTH
> 
> Bret
> 
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