NFS and CDROM question

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2 total messages Started by Dean Clamons Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:44

#925

Author: Dean Clamons
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:44

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I would like to make the CDROM on my NeXT available for mounting by other  
(non-NeXT) systems on the network. I have exported the CDROM directory and  
made sure that nfsd and mountd are running. When I try to mount it from  
another system I get an error message: "mount: access denied for ---"  
where --- is my system and directory name. I have tried exporting and  
mounting other file systems from the NeXT, and it works fine.

A second question along the same lines is whether there is a way to get  
the CDROM to always mount under the same mount point (eg /cdrom) instead  
of under a mount point which is related to the name of the disk. The  
reason I would like to do this is so that the CDROM can always be mounted  
from another system by using the same name (assuming that I can mount it  
at all!).

Your comments would be welcomed.

--
Dean Clamons
Naval Research Lab
Code 5110
Washington, DC 20375
(202) 767-2384
dean@n5170a.nrl.navy.mil

Re: NFS and CDROM question

#947

Author: Paul S. Sears
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 20:42

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In article <3393@ra.nrl.navy.mil> dean@n5170a.nrl.navy.mil (Dean Clamons)  
writes:
=>A second question along the same lines is whether there is a way to get  
=>the CDROM to always mount under the same mount point (eg /cdrom) instead  
=>of under a mount point which is related to the name of the disk. The  
=>reason I would like to do this is so that the CDROM can always be mounted  
=>from another system by using the same name (assuming that I can mount it  
=>at all!).

Add and entry to /etc/fstab to make it something like (make sure the entry is  
READ_ONLY!!!).  If there is not a disk in the CD-Rom drive apon boot up, it  
will ask you to insert the disk into the drive.  Also, this has only worked  
for the NeXTStep Prerelease disks.  This does not work for any ISO9600 format  
disks for some strange reason (we wanted to have Exploring Mathematics with  
Mathematica mounted in one of our drives.  Caused a panic every time we  
booted):

#
#       DO NOT DELETE THIS FILE, IT IS REQUIRED FOR BOOTING
#
#       This file contains information used to mount local hard disks.  
#       Consult your system administration and networking manual
#       for information on adding local disks.  Information on the format
#       of entries in this file can also be found in the fstab man page,
#       search for fstab in Digital Librarian.
#
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd1a /cdrom 4.3 ro,noquota 0 0


=>
=>Your comments would be welcomed.
=>
=>--
=>Dean Clamons
=>Naval Research Lab
=>Code 5110
=>Washington, DC 20375
=>(202) 767-2384
=>dean@n5170a.nrl.navy.mil

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