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Sheldon Isaac wrote:
>
>computer "FIC" ; its /tmp is a symbolic link to
>  /hd/lin3/tmp/  , which is on partition  hda5
>  ( /root  is on  partition hda2 )
> 
> I made a  testfile  in the  /root  directory, and when I said
> ls -aln /root/testfile, the result was:
> -rw-r--r--   1 0    0        10 Oct 31 18:20 /root/testfile
> 
> And I copied /root/testfile to /tmp/, 

I assume that put testfile in the /tmp directory on /dev/hda5

> I did the commands to let FIC be a server to computer "ASUS".
> When I said   ls -aln /fic/root/testfile   on ASUS, the result:
> -rw-r--r--   1 0        0              10 Oct 31 18:20 /fic/root/testfile
> 
> But when, on ASUS, I said   ls -aln /fic/tmp/testfile 
> the answer was
> ls:  /fic/tmp/testfile:  No such file or directory.

Try it without relying on the symbolic link:
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On ASUS:  ls -aln /fic/hd/lin3/tmp/testfile
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NFS servers do not necessarily provide full access to the filesystem.  
There are several parameters in /etc/exports that affect the access.
For details, see:
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man exports
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Cheers,
Steven