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Whenever I make an NFS export on a folder off my home directory I get the error below (appreciate this example is too brief, but the next set of code shows how I got here):

$ sudo exportfs -ar
exportfs: /export/test does not support NFS export

Here is what I've done in detail:

## Create the bind mount ##
$ sudo mount --bind /home/john/test /export/test

## Verify original /home/john/test folder exists ##
john@john:~/test$ cd ~/
john@john:~$ ls -l | grep test
drwxrwxr-x 2 john john 4096 Feb 9 13:33 test

## Check what files exist in this folder and confirm they are in the bind location ##
john@john:~$ cd test
john@john:~/test$ ls 
f test testfile

## Verify bind location folder exists & that the same files are in this location ##
john@john:~/test$ cd /export/test
john@john:/export/test$ ls
f test testfile

## Ensure export file is exporting the bind location ##
john@john:/export/test$ grep test /etc/exports
/export/test 192.168.0.0/24(rw,sync,root_squash,no_subtree_check)

## Re-export shares to get the /export/test nfs share on the network ##
john@john:/export/test$ sudo exportfs -ar
exportfs: /export/test does not support NFS export

As you can see. When I try to re-export my share, it throws the error above. After the testing below, I found that this only happens when trying to export anything linked, or directly on my /home/john/ directory. I don't know why.

#################### Testing using a directory outside of /home ######################

Here I try and use the NFS share on a new directory "/test" without a bind mount, and it works:

#note, continuing from the bash commands above#
john@john:/test$ cd ..
john@john:/$ sudo umount /test
john@john:/$ ls /test
test
john@john:/$ sudo exportfs -ar
john@john:/$ 

########## Testing using a share from a directory in /home (without a bind-mount)########

Here I made a share on a directory off of my home directory (as I suspect it's the home directory mounts having the issue), without any binds, which doesn't work

john@john:~$ mkdir test-nobind
john@john:~$ cd test-nobind/
john@john:~/test-nobind$ touch file1 file2
john@john:~/test-nobind$ ls -l
total 16
-rw-rw-r-- 1 john john 0 Feb 9 19:23 file1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 john john 0 Feb 9 19:23 file2
john@john:~/test-nobind$ cd ..
john@john:~$ sudo nano /etc/exports ###added line to export this folder
john@john:~$ grep test /etc/exports
/home/john/test-nobind 172.31.16.0/24(rw,sync,root_squash,no_subtree_check)

john@john:~$ sudo exportfs -rav
exporting 172.31.16.0/24:/home/john/test-nobind
exportfs: /home/john/test-nobind does not support NFS export

As you can see, I have the same error as my original post where exportfs says "does not support NFS export". So it's my home directory causing the problem. My /etc/crypttab file is empty, so I don't believe I have any encryption running (at least I don't think I do). I want to know why I get this error?

Below is a list of stuff/outputs people in this forum have asked me to check

john@john:/home$ df $HOME
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/home/john/.Private 106992680 81417972 20116688 81% /home/john

john@john:~$ mount | grep /home/john
/home/john/.Private on /home/john type ecryptfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,ecryptfs_fnek_sig=b15035efe9091f4e,ecryptfs_sig=05afa3a5d0c7b155,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16,ecryptfs_unlink_sigs)