Mounting a cdrom from a remote server.

[pgorn]

I am tring to mount a cdrom from another server on the network so I can run swinstall. This is the error I am getting.

You do not have the required permissions to perform this operation. Check permissions using the "swacl" command
or see your system administrator for assistance. Or, to manage applications designed and packaged for nonprivileged mode, see the "run_as_superuser" option in the "sd" man page.

Thank you,

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

On remote server:

vi /etc/exports

/cdrom *(ro)

save

exportfs -av

Now you can remote mount via nfs.

Make sure the thing is mounted properly on the remote system prior to exporting.

SEP

[pgorn]

I got the same errot when I went into swinstall. I have the source Depot path /SD_CDROM

[IT_2007]

your id doesn't have permissions to run depot on local machine. ACL has been set on your local machine. You need to add your id to it so that you can install it.

Look at man swacl and some examples given at the end.

[pgorn]

my id is root. I should be able to run anything.

[Dave Olker]

Hi,

Can you please post the contents of your /etc/xtab file from the server and the output from the "nfsstat -m" command on the client. This will show me exactly how the filesystem is exported on the server and exactly how it is mounted on the client.

Regards,

Dave

[NMory]

Have you registered the depot?

Register the depot to make it available to remote hosts:

swreg -l depot /tmp/[depot name]

LN

[NMory]

Additional info can be found here:

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/search.do?category=c0&prevQueryString=A4932908&mode=id&searchString=USDUXKBRC00011447&searchCrit=allwords&docType=Security&docType=Patch&docType=EngineerNotes&docType=BugReports&docType=Hardware&docType=ReferenceMaterials&docType=ThirdParty&dateRange=all&search.x=30&search.y=8

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/search.do?category=c0&prevQueryString=A4932908&mode=id&searchString=SDUXKBRC00010729&searchCrit=allwords&docType=Security&docType=Patch&docType=EngineerNotes&docType=BugReports&docType=Hardware&docType=ReferenceMaterials&docType=ThirdParty&dateRange=all&search.x=29&search.y=11

[Dave Olker]

My concern is if you're trying to run swinstall as a root user on the client and access a depot on a remote NFS server, you'd likely have to export the cdrom with root permission for the client. Otherwise your root user will get its UID/GID remapped to -2 on the server, which would likely result in the ACL error.

Please make sure the cdrom is exported on the server with both the "ro" option and the "root=" option. See the exports man page if you need help with the syntax.

Regards,

Dave

[NMory]

Or this one:

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/search.do?category=c0&prevQueryString=A4932908&mode=id&searchString=KBAN00000785&searchCrit=allwords&docType=Security&docType=Patch&docType=EngineerNotes&docType=BugReports&docType=Hardware&docType=ReferenceMaterials&docType=ThirdParty&dateRange=all&search.x=9&search.y=9

LN