NAME
share - make local resource available for mounting by remote
systems
SYNOPSIS
share [ -F FSType ] [ -o specific_options ]
[ -d description ] [ pathname ]
AVAILABILITY
SUNWcsu
DESCRIPTION
The share command exports, or makes a resource available for
mounting, through a remote file system of type FSType. If
the option -F FSType is omitted, the first file system type
listed in /etc/dfs/fstypes is used as default. For a
description of NFS specific options, see share_nfs(1M).
pathname is the pathname of the directory to be shared.
When invoked with no arguments, share displays all shared
file systems.
OPTIONS
-F FSType Specify the filesystem type.
-o specific_options The specific_options are used to con-
trol access of the shared resource.
(See share_nfs(1M) for the NFS specific
options.) They may be any of the fol-
lowing:
rw pathname is shared read/write to all
clients. This is also the default
behavior.
rw=client[:client]...
pathname is shared read/write only to
the listed clients. No other systems
can access pathname.
ro pathname is shared read-only to all
clients.
ro=client[:client]...
pathname is shared read-only only to
the listed clients. No other systems
can access pathname.
-d description The -d flag may be used to provide a
description of the resource being
shared.
EXAMPLES
This line in /etc/dfs/dfstab will share the /disk file sys-
tem read-only at boot time.
share -F nfs -o ro /disk
Note that if a machine is not sharing any file systems, run-
ning share has no effect until you either run
/etc/init.d/nfs.server start or reboot the system, both of
which start up nfsd(1M) server processes.
FILES
/etc/dfs/dfstab list of share commands to be executed at
boot time
/etc/dfs/fstypes list of file system types, NFS by default
/etc/dfs/sharetab system record of shared file systems
SEE ALSO
share_nfs(1M), shareall(1M), unshare(1M)
NOTES
Export (old terminology): file system sharing used to be
called exporting on SunOS 4.x, so the share command used to
be invoked as exportfs(1B) or /usr/sbin/exportfs.
If share commands are invoked multiple times on the same
filesystem, the last share invocation supersedes the previ-
ous-the options set by the last share command replace the
old options. For example, if read-write permission was given
to usera on /somefs, then to give read-write permission also
to userb on /somefs:
example% share -F nfs -o rw=usera:userb /somefs
This behavior is not limited to sharing the root filesystem,
but applies to all filesystems.