Using "How to Export a Directory to a Subnet" from docs.info.apple.com,
I set up an export for /Volumes/Alien.  It looks OK as far as I can
tell.  At the Linux box, I run -- 

mount 192.168.1.102:/Volumes/Alien /mnt/alien

It does mount without error.  However, when I try to read /mnt/alien, I
get --

ls: reading directory .: Input/output error

I'm fairly sure the problem's at the OSX server side.  Also, system.log
on the OSX box has:

mountd[307]: bad export list line /Volumes/Alien

Any advice greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

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edjlb@yahoo.com wrote:
> Using "How to Export a Directory to a Subnet" from docs.info.apple.com,
> I set up an export for /Volumes/Alien.  It looks OK as far as I can
> tell.  At the Linux box, I run -- 
> 
> mount 192.168.1.102:/Volumes/Alien /mnt/alien
> 
> It does mount without error.  However, when I try to read /mnt/alien, I
> get --
> 
> ls: reading directory .: Input/output error
> 
> I'm fairly sure the problem's at the OSX server side.  Also, system.log
> on the OSX box has:
> 
> mountd[307]: bad export list line /Volumes/Alien
> 
> Any advice greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
> 

I'm trying to learn the mac thing (coming from UNIX) and thought I'd try 
to do what you are doing. The short of it is that I was not able to get 
sharing working using NetInfo. I had to resort to /etc/exports to do so. 
I did see the same problem (the I/O error) you are that was caused by a 
typo in the opts->values (mount options) in NetInfo so you may want to 
check there. And, as far as I can tell the -alldirs option described in 
exports(5) doesn't work at all. I get the 'bad export list line' error.

Hope this helps a bit.

-Mark