1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
2.\" All rights reserved.
3.\"
4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
5.\" Rick Macklem at The University of Guelph.
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8.\"
9.\"     @(#)showmount.8	6.3 (Berkeley) 03/16/91
10.\"
11.Dd
12.Dt SHOWMOUNT 8
13.Os BSD 4
14.Sh NAME
15.Nm showmount
16.Nd show remote nfs mounts on host
17.Sh SYNOPSIS
18.Nm showmount
19.Op Fl ade
20.Op Ar host
21.Sh DESCRIPTION
22.Nm Showmount
23shows status information about the
24.Tn NFS
25server on
26.Ar host .
27By default it prints the names of all hosts that have
28.Tn NFS
29file systems mounted
30on the host. See
31.%T "NFS: Network File System Protocol Specification" ,
32RFC 1094,
33Appendix A ,
34for a detailed desciption of the protocol.
35.Bl -tag -width Ds
36.It Fl a
37List all mount points in the form:
38.Bd -ragged -offset indent -compact
39.Ar host : Ns Ar dirpath
40.Ed
41.It Fl d
42List directory paths of mount points instead of hosts
43.It Fl e
44Show the
45.Ar host Ns 's
46exports list
47.El
48.Sh SEE ALSO
49.Xr mount 1 ,
50.Xr mountd 8
51.Sh BUGS
52The mount daemon running on the server only has an idea of the actual mounts,
53since the
54.Tn NFS
55server is stateless.
56.Nm Showmount
57will only display the information
58as accurately as the mount daemon reports it.
59.Sh HISTORY
60The
61.Nm
62command
63.Ud
64