Summary: nfs mounting a cd on a Solaris 7 box

From: MacDonell, Dennis <DennisMacDonell_at_auslig.gov.au>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 11:33:02 +1000

Hi

in the /etc/dfs/dfstab put

share -F nfs -o ro /cdrom/cdrom0

and use the mount command

mount -r <machine>:/cdrom/cdrom0 <mount-point>

Thanks to: Octave J. Orgeron

Dennis

Original question:
> Hi,
>
> I have a generic Solaris 7 system, which has a cd
> that I want to read on
> another system. The cd is successfully mounted on
> the Solaris box, because I
> can "cd /cdrom/cdrom0" and do an "ls" to see all the
> files. I've added an
> entry into the /etc/dfs/dfstab file of the style -
>
> share -F nfs -o ro /cdrom
>
> and all appears to be well. I can mount the the cd
> on another system, and
> when I do an "ls" on the directory I get
>
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root nobody 512 Mar 22
> 14:33 ai8_workstation
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root nobody 17 Mar 22
> 14:33 cdrom0 ->
> ./ai8_workstation
>
> However when I "cd cdrom0" and do an "ls" I get
>
> total 0
>
> pwd returns - /mnt/ai8_workstation
>
> So the link appears to work, but it does seem to be
> able to read the
> directory entries. It doesn't matter whether I mount
> it on another Solaris
> box or a Tru64 box I get the same thing.
>
> I tried changing the share command in the dfstab
> file to
>
> share -F hsfs -o ro /cdrom
>
> but the shareall command complained about hsfs

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