lear@aramis.rutgers.edu (eliot lear) (12/04/87)
Hello all, I heard about Don's reagan.bites demo and I wanted to take a look at it so I ftp'd the files over to my 3/280 and proceeded to attempt to run them. psh spat back that it couldn't find the files. One other detail for info: I was running my NeWS server on a 3/50. Well. The problem is that NeWS only checks the machine on which news_server is running when it does file I/O. Granted, that by default, this must be the case but there should be some mechanism of accessing data on remote machines (like on my 280[[[!!!]]]). Does some mechanism exist that I have missed (besides the obvious of writing a C program to interact with the server)? I understand that adding such a feature would be a pain but does anyone else see its use? Regards, Eliot -- Eliot Lear [lear@rutgers.edu]
don@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU (Don Hopkins) (12/04/87)
Date: 4 Dec 87 04:54:34 GMT From: aramis.rutgers.edu!lear@rutgers.edu (eliot lear) Hello all, I heard about Don's reagan.bites demo and I wanted to take a look at it so I ftp'd the files over to my 3/280 and proceeded to attempt to run them. The reagan.bytes demo, along with some other NeWS related stuff, is in the public ftp directory on tumtum.cs.umd.edu (128.8.128.49). (Log in with ftp as user anonymous, with any password.) psh spat back that it couldn't find the files. One other detail for info: I was running my NeWS server on a 3/50. Well. The problem is that NeWS only checks the machine on which news_server is running when it does file I/O. Granted, that by default, this must be the case but there should be some mechanism of accessing data on remote machines (like on my 280[[[!!!]]]). Does some mechanism exist that I have missed (besides the obvious of writing a C program to interact with the server)? I understand that adding such a feature would be a pain but does anyone else see its use? Regards, Eliot -- Eliot Lear [lear@rutgers.edu] Well, that's exactly what NFS is for. You just have to have the right directory mounted, at the same point in the file system that it is on the server, so the absolute path names are the same from machine to machine. That's why it's a bad idea to give different file systems on different machines the same names, if you want to use NFS. (You can't have 2 directories mounted at once in the same place, and you lose if you have to refer to the same directory with different names on different machines.) -Don