Many thanks to the members of this list. Again you all have proven to be a
great source of information and help.
*** The original post:
>I have been trying to share my cdrom from my pc running SolarisX86 v2.5 and
>have been having problems. I can share a directory and see anything beneath
>that shared directory when I connect from another machine, but when I share
>the cdrom directory and connect to it I can only see the root partition of the
>cd and nothing beneath it.
>
>Here is what I am doing.
>
>I edited the /etc/dfs/dfstab file to reflect:
> share -F nfs /cdrom
>
>I then stopped and then started:
> /etc/init.d/nfs.server
>
>From another machine logged in as root I executed:
> mount machinename:/cdrom /john (/john being the directory that
> created for the temporary mounting
of the cdrom.)
*** The apparent fix:
there were many duplicates so I assume that this was a stuipd post but this was
the one that worked from the first try:
>Hi John,
>
>The following worked well for me (it's pretty much straight out of the
>answerbook):
>
>* nfs sharing the cdrom
>
>- on the local machine insert a cdrom into the cdrom drive, and add the
>following line to /etc/dfs/dfstab:
>
> share -F nfs -o ro -d "cdrom directory" /cdrom/cdrom0
>
> - then run the following command for the new exports to take
>effect:
> # shareall
>
>- on the remote machine log in as root, create a mount point for the
>local cdrom (if necessary), and then mount it
>
> # mkdir -p /cdrom/remote_cdrom
> # mount remote_machine:/cdrom/cdrom0 /cdrom/remote_cdrom
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Dan Baritchi
>dan.baritchi@mci.com
The responders: (there were many!!)
Trevor Paquette <TrevorPaquette@aec.ca>
Asim Zuberi <asim@psa.pencom.com>
Craig Ledbetter <cledbett@homeaccount.com>
Dean Humphrey <dean@npg.wustl.edu>
Russ Poffenberger <poffen@mailhost.San-Jose.ate.slb.com>
Ron Loftin <rloftin@engsys.mc.xerox.com>
Mark Sherman <mark@dbs-mia.com>
Rahul Roy <roy@bluestone.com>
Dan Baritchi <dan.baritchi@mci.com>
Martin Espinoza <drink@sei.com>
Ed Poorbaugh <poorbaugh@norcross.mcs.slb.com>
Tony Clark <clark@ccmail.ram.co.uk>
Ray Trzaska <rtrzaska@uk.mdis.com>
Umesh Vaghela <uvaghela@mpc-uk.com>
Michael Sullivan <mike@trdlnk.com>
mcgonigl@bose.com <mcgonigl@bose.com>
foster@bial1.ucsd.edu <foster@bial1.ucsd.edu>
D. Ellen March <demarch@ptes.com>
Mike Varney <mlv03@health.state.ny.us>
Dieter Gobbers <GOBBERS@FAW9370.FAW.UNI-ULM.DE>
Don Catey <catey@wren.geg.mot.com>
Richard C. Mills <rmills@atl1.america.net>
raju@pez.ecologic.net <raju@pez.ecologic.net>
Keith Willenson <keith@oz.health.state.mn.us>
Andrej Misik <misik@alpha.dcs.fmph.uniba.sk>
Kenn Owen <kowen@aip.org>
Thanks again for all of the help!!
CYA :-}
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