SUMMARY: exporting floppy drive

From: Christopher M. Chin (chris@advent.com)
Date: Tue Apr 09 1996 - 17:34:27 CDT


Can't be done.

Special thanks to Jose Manuel Franco for telling me that PCFS is
not exportable, and to Trevor Paquette for pointing me to the man
page for pcfs:

   BUGS
        PCFS should handle the disk change condition like MS-DOS, so
        that the user does not need to unmount the filesystem to
        change floppies. PCFS is currently not NFS mountable. Try-
        ing to mount a PCFS filesystem through NFS will fail with an
        EACCES error.

Much appreciation to those who replied:

   Trevor Paquette <TrevorPaquette@aec.ca>
   Jose Manuel Franco <jmfranco@campus.cem.itesm.mx>
   Daniel E. Singer <des@cs.duke.edu>
   Asim Zuberi <asim@psa.pencom.com>

Thanks again,
 - Christopher

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On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Christopher M. Chin wrote:

> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 08:51:38 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Christopher M. Chin <chris@Advent.COM>
> To: Sun Managers Mailing List <sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov>
> Subject: exporting floppy drive
>
> Howdy,
>
> I'm trying to mount a floppy drive from a remote machine (pippin)
> to my local machine (mozart).
>
> The remote machine is running 4.1.4, and the local machine is
> running Solaris 2.4.
>
> I've tried the following:
>
> pippin# mount -t pcfs /dev/fd0 /floppy
>
> Then, I edited /etc/exports to include:
>
> /floppy -access=mozart,root=mozart
>
> /etc/exports shares it's root with mozart via:
>
> / -access=mozart,rw=mozart,root=mozart
>
> Then, I did:
>
> pippin# exportfs -v /floppy
> exportfs: /pcfs: Invalid argument
>
> mozart# mount pippin:/dev/fd0 /mnt
> nfs mount: pippin:/dev/fd0: access denied
> mozart# mount pippin:/pcfs /mnt
> nfs mount: pippin:/pcfs: access denied
>
> Trying different things to mount this same floppy to
> another Sparc20 (4.1.3):
>
> gandalf# mount -t pcfs pippin:/dev/fd0 /floppy
> mount_pcfs: pippin:/dev/fd0 on /floppy type pcfs: No such file or
> directory
> mount: giving up on:
> /floppy
>
> gandalf# mount pippin:/floppy /floppy
> mount: access denied for pippin:/floppy
> mount: giving up on:
> /floppy
>
> gandalf# mount pippin:/dev/fd0 /floppy
> mount: access denied for pippin:/dev/fd0
> mount: giving up on:
> /floppy
>
>
>
> Am I doing something wrong here, or am I trying the impossible?
>
>
> Thanks,
> - Christopher
>
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