RE: nfs server

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Wed, 14 May 2003 Daniel_Casey@jbhunt.com wrote:

> Igot, that did it.

s/Igot/Igor/  ;-)

> Yes, I had more mounts than what I put in the last e-mail, but I didn't
> think the others were relevant.
>
> This is a snapshot of the part of the mount command before:
>
> d:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode)
> d:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type user (binmode)
> d:\cygwin on / type user (binmode)
>
> And after running the eval command:
>
> eval "`mount -m | sed -e 's/ -u / -s /g' -e 's/$/;/'`"
>
> d:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode)
> d:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
> d:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type user (binmode)
> d:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
> d:\cygwin on / type user (binmode)
> d:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)

FYI, you can now "umount -u /usr/bin /usr/lib /" -- they are not needed.

> I then re-ran the nfs-server-config and I was able to start the CYGWIN
> portmap, CYGWIN nfsd,
> and CYGWIN mountd services from the Win2k Services GUI.
>
> So, when I try to mount the /pub directory that lives on my Win2k/Cygwin
> machines from a remote
> Unix machine, can I just specify /pub or does it have to be the Win2k path?

AFAIK (and I don't know too much about this), the NFS server should look
like any other Unix server -- POSIX paths and all.  It's a port of a Unix
program, after all.

> Thanks for all the help guys!

Glad we could help,
	Igor
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