Mount a mounted NFS share?

danospv · 10-23-2009, 12:41 PM

I'm trying to mount a mounted NFS share... I know its strange, so let me explain.

I have a server that connects through VPN to a network, that has the NFS share exported. I am able to successfully mount the NFS share on that server, in /media/iSCSI.

Now I want to share this NFS share with other servers, that are on the same network as the VPN-ed server, but are not connected to VPN. When I try to export the mounted share, I get:

Code:

/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart
Stopping NFS kernel daemon: mountd nfsd.
Unexporting directories for NFS kernel daemon....
Exporting directories for NFS kernel daemon...exportfs: Warning: /media/iSCSI does not support NFS export.
.
Starting NFS kernel daemon: nfsd mountd.

and I'm unable to mount this share from the other servers.

Is there a workaround, or am I missing something obvious?

mostlyharmless · 10-23-2009, 03:10 PM

This question is probably totally over my head, but what the heck.

I think the whole point of a VPN is that it is V-Private-N; i.e. you're not supposed to be able to share with someone else at the same time and make it browseable. That's the way it is when I connect to work VPNs at home, you can't share.

But I could be wrong. If it were me, I would try to mount the share like any other filesystem instead of using nfs to export, although I have no idea if that would work. For example if you run samba you could mount the thing as a samba share....

danospv · 10-23-2009, 04:44 PM

I'm able to mount it on the computer connected to VPN, but I want to access that resource from other computers on the network, even though they're not connected to VPN... In other words I want the server to act like a gateway between VPN and the local network.

I was looking into using routes and IP tables, but I wouldn't know where to start to set it up...