From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: RE: auto-discovery of exports?
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:37:25 +0800 (WST)
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On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Guolin Cheng wrote:

> Hi, Michael,
> 
>  Run shell command "showmount -e|--exports <server_to_be_questioned>".
> If you would like to scan your network to check each host, run a for
> loop, and in the loop put another command "rpcinfo -p
> <server_to_be_questions>  |grep nfs" to make sure whether the nfs server
> is running on the host, if so, run the showmount command to query the
> exported file system from the host. 

Fine but how would you enumerate the hosts?
Would you restrict this to the local subnet?

Ian



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