[comp.sys.apollo] how to be an nfs client

LWONG@UVPHYS.BITNET (12/07/90)

Do I need to purchase NFS if I just want to be an NFS client
(ie. just mount someone else's disk)?  Do I need to set up
something special?

I tried issuing an /etc/mount command but it returned with:
mount: unable to exec /etc/nfsmount
mount: nfsmount returned in error

Thanks,
Lynda.

krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) (12/07/90)

In a word, yes.

Apollo's NFS is *not* derived from the sources supplied by Sun (or wasn't
back in the days when we tried it). Their implementation uses the IOS
type-manager features of Domain/OS to create the NFS mount-point as a
special type of file which invokes the NFS type-manager.


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