Try adding nohide as an option to /etc/exports. See exports(5) for more information about nohide and exporting filesystems with mount points.
Most interesting.
Looked, and applied...
no change..
these are the relevant lines in the /etc/exports
/data/shared/ 172.16.1.0/255.255.255.0(sync,rw,nohide) /data/shared/ 172.16.4.0/255.255.255.0(sync,rw,nohide)
(need to export to different subnets, anything else doesn't work)
Cheers
Did have another look at the nohide option after some sleep, and there is a rather special caveat...
<quote> The nohide option is currently only effective on single host exports. It does not work reliably with netgroup, subnet, or wildcard exports. </quote>
Not really good enough as this data needs to be exported to a whole lot of machines, i.e. two subnets..
Any other thoughts ?
AM