On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 02:53:20PM -0700, Chris wrote: > I was setting up NFS the other day on Debian. I was under the impression > that I could put a asterics symbol * at the end of the IP address in > /etc/exports to specify that an entire range of IP addresses have access > to the folder. Here is what I mean. It would only work like this: > > /var/www 192.168.0.100/255.255.255.0(rwx) > > But I wanted to do it like this: > > /var/www 192.168.0.*/255.255.255.0(rwx) > The convention is to use the base address of the network as determined by the netmask, which in your case would be 192.168.0.0 - I've never seen an asterisk there. The netmask already makes the decision whether the "0" is specific (as in 192.168._0_.0) or a wildcard (as in 192.168.0._0_) - no need to do it yourself with '*'. > Is there a way to do what I am trying to accomplish? Thanks for reading. What you're trying to accomplish? I though it was already working when you substituted the star with any valid IP of the network...? But concerning the asterisk: I don't think so. Maybe you can shorten the netmask part (also a commonly used syntax, although I don't know for sure if /etc/exports under- stands it), so that it reads /var/www 192.168.0.0/24(rwx) but you won't get it any shorter than that. Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz <jckn At gmx net>
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