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I already have a NFS share mounted on my server A from a remote server Server-Remote. (/mnt/nfs_share)

On server A I installed and run the NFS server service and now I want to export the above share to another server B on the network.

After edit /etc/exports and run exportfs -a on server A I got the below error message:

exportfs: /mnt/nfs_share does not support NFS export

So is it possible to nfs export an existing NFS share? kind of like a NFS relay or forward?

Xianlin
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    Why would you want to do this? This is usually not possible except with some insane workarounds because it is a very bad idea. – Sven Jul 25 '16 at 08:03
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    Some ancient operating systems used to do this, back in the distant past (SunOS!). It was a nightmare, and was one of the primary causes of entire universities losing all of their workstations and servers at once.... Even if it _were_ possible, it's something you should go out of your way to avoid. – Michael Hampton Jul 25 '16 at 08:17

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It is not possible to reexport NFS mounts. You can export an NFS mount via SMB however if that works for you.

user192749
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