rogerj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda) (03/14/90)
Folks, Just a couple of questions: The first is an X question, but although there is comp.sources.x I don't know of a comp. group that discusses X so I couldn't post it elsewhere (I know it's not a unixy question per se, sorry) I KNOW this is a silly question, but I just can't find the answer. We need some sources for X11R3, note that R3 NOT R4. Gatekeeper@dec.com and athena-dist.mit.edu both have just R4 sources. I'd like to go to R4, but we've been given (curse of the university creed I guess) lots of R3 server code free, we just need some additional things like client code, man pages, etc. Does anyone know of a server that still has X11R3 for ftp? Thanks in advance! The second question deals with NFS/exportfs. We have a new Optical Drive that we'd like to make available for nfs mounting to other workstations on our net (we already mount everyone's /user directories so anyone can use any workstation and get in to their home directory), but we're running into "access denied problems." In our /etc/exports table we have (for the BIG host, where the Optical will be): <stuff> / -rw,root=<the other BIG server in our net> <stuff> ("<stuff>" is just comments and dates) If I read the man pages right, this means export "/" on our server machine to everyone read/write, and allow host access to the other server. Great. Now, on that same server, we mount th Optical drive with the mount command: mount -o rw /dev/od0a /OpticalDrive Which means "mount this drive FS under ? as OpticalDrive"...right? So all should be cool now, right? Wrong. When a local machine goes to try to mount the Optical Drive directory tree with a command like: mount -vt nfs <server machine>:/OpticalDrive /NetOD nfs rw,bg,intr,net 0 0 is where we get the access denied problems. So back to the server, we re-export everything (exportfs -va) and the server says "re-exporting /". Fine, so back to the local hosts and we still get access denied. If we mount the Optical Drive under / on the server and export /, can't people nfs mount the Optical Drive on their local hosts? Does anyone see anything obvious we missed here? Thanks in advance! --Roger Jagoda --Cornell University --FQOJ@CORNELLA.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
ftw@quasar..westford.ccur.com (Farrell Woods) (03/14/90)
In article <9903@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> rogerj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda) writes: >If we mount the Optical Drive under / [as in /OpticalDisk] on the server >and export /, can't people nfs mount the Optical Drive on their local hosts? No, they can't. In your /etc/exports file, you must have the pathname of each mounted filesystem you wish to export. In fact, I'm using a Sony magneto-optical disk myself. My exports file looks like: / /laser Where /laser is where I have the MO disk mounted when I'm running multi-user. Add /OpticalDisk (or whatever) to your exports file, and other users should then be able to mount it. -- Farrell T. Woods Voice: (508) 392-2471 Concurrent Computer Corporation Domain: ftw@westford.ccur.com 1 Technology Way uucp: {backbones}!masscomp!ftw Westford, MA 01886 "I can't drive...fifty-five!"