cnar13@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (05/23/91)
I'm running PCNFS on an Apricot Qi. The software would appear to
provide the facility for mounting multiple peripheral drives.
What I want to know is if there is any way of configuring NFS
so that it recognises drives mounted on different hosts (or
is it the case that only one NFS Daemon can be specified?)
What I really want to do is mount diskspace from a Sun
Sparcstation as drive E: and diskspace on an HP workstation
as drive F:. No luck so far.
Can anyone relieve me of my ignorance?
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% %craick@titan.trl.OZ.AU (John Craick) (05/24/91)
cnar13@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes: > I'm running PCNFS on an Apricot Qi. The software would appear to > provide the facility for mounting multiple peripheral drives. > What I want to know is if there is any way of configuring NFS > so that it recognises drives mounted on different hosts (or > is it the case that only one NFS Daemon can be specified?) > What I really want to do is mount diskspace from a Sun > Sparcstation as drive E: and diskspace on an HP workstation > as drive F:. No luck so far. > Can anyone relieve me of my ignorance? There maybe reasons why this doesn't work in your particular circumstances but, in principle, and as far as I'm concerned, in practice, what you want to do is quite straightforward. You merely use multiple "net use [diskid] [\\host\path] " statements to mount as many disks as you want on as many different hosts as you want. There might be problems if you have different user names or passwords on the different hosts (as I do) but there are ways around that as well. I have had no other problems using Sun's PC-NFS but I must say the Beames & Whiteside NFS doesn't seem quite so co-operative. That may not be their fault because I am asking B&W to interwork with Sun NFS daemons, which mightn't be entirely fair. John Craick Telecom Research Melbourne, oz (j.craick@trl.oz.au)
jesse@rlgvax.Reston.ICL.COM (Jesse Barber) (06/04/91)
In article <1991May23.233849.17808@trl.oz.au> craick@titan.trl.OZ.AU (John Craick) writes: >cnar13@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes: > > >> What I want to know is if there is any way of configuring NFS >> so that it recognises drives mounted on different hosts (or >> is it the case that only one NFS Daemon can be specified?) > > >There might be problems if you have different user names or passwords on >the different hosts (as I do) but there are ways around that as well. > PCNFS does not have to be told about NFS daemons, only about PCNFS daemons, which handle authetication, and some other odds and ends. PCNFS assumes that there is one name space for the network, by assuming that the numeric user id it gets from the net pcnfsd specified host is the same across the network. Thus, for all mounted drives, it uses the same user id to determine permissions. If you don't use the NIS (or yellow pages), this means that the passwd file must be the same on each individual host for all users of PCNFS. If this is not the case, you could see the problems the first poster alluded to. -- Jesse Barber Work Addess ICL North America, 11490 Commerce Park Drive, Reston, VA 22091 Home Address 38 Longfellow St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20011 Net Address jesse@rlgvax.uu.net or ..!uunet!rlgvax!jesse