adding cdrom drive to server device list

[Mark Vollmers]

I have an external cd-rom drive on a workstation and want to mount it to the server. the id would be c0t4d0. I can see this address in the workstations /dev/dsk folder, but cannot see on the servers. How can I add this device to the server so that I can mount the drive? I would like to do this so that I can work on the server from the workstation at my desk (I telnet into the server from my desk and work from there to install programs and the like). I have rebooted the server and it has not shown up. Also, I cannot find the device in SAM. Thanks a lot.

[Dan Hetzel]

Hi Mark,

You won't be able to see the device as such, but only an exported directory.

To be able to mount the workstation cdrom on your server you'll need a few things:

Setup your workstation as an NFS server, mount the cdrom locally and export the cdrom mountpoint. See 'man exportfs' for details.

From your server, issue the mount command like this:
mount :

The local mountpoint must exist before issuing the mount command.

Best regards,

Dan

[Andreas Voss · Accepted solution]

Hi,

at the server look at
/etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf for the line
NFS_SERVER=1
If not set to 1 then do it and run /sbin/init.d/nfs.server start
Mount your cdrom with:
mount /dev/dsk/c0t4d0 /SD_CDROM
Export the directory with:
exportfs -i -o ro /SD_CDROM

At your remote system mount the cdrom with:
mount :/SD_CDROM /SD_CDROM

The directory /SD_CDROM is an example, you could change it to your favorite but take care that the directory exists both on server and remote system (mkdir ...)

Regards