NFS from NTs

[Tom Waits]

Our NT administrator isn't always able to provide correct case for exported file systems. How can I query to determine what NFS file systems are available for mounting?

[Jeff Machols]

from the unix side, just run exportfs, this will give all the NFS mountable filesystems

[Helen French]

hey,

If you want to see the exported NFS file systems, which is ready for mounting try this in HP-UX

# exportfs

You may view/change this information through SAM too. See the /etc/exports file.

In Windows, you have to look at the directory/file system sharing properties.

See this:
http://www.docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90043/B1031-90043_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90043/00/00/6-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90043/00/00/6-toc.html&searchterms=NFS%7cmount&queryid=20011214-064419

HTH,
Shiju

[Wim Rombauts]

If you want to see the NFS exported filesystems on an NT Server, you could configure your automount daemon on HP-UX to mount those filesystems.

For UNIX systems, this can be done with putting "/net -hosts" in your /etc/auto_master file.

[Wim Rombauts]

If you want to see the NFS exported filesystems on an NT Server, you could configure your automount daemon on HP-UX to mount those filesystems.

For UNIX systems, this can be done with putting "/net -hosts" in your /etc/auto_master file.

[Tom Waits]

I appologize for not making myself clear to everyone. The HP-UX machine is the NFS client, the NT is the server in this case. Sitting at the HP, I'm trying to determine what filesystem(s) the NT has exported. Using '/net -hosts' in '/etc/auto_master' looks like it would do the trick, but at the expense of mounting every NFS filesystem on the LAN. Is there a way to just query?

[Jeff Machols]

you might be able to integrate that with the mount -V which will only report the status and not actually mount anything (capital V)

[Sanjay_6 · Accepted solution]

Hi tom,

Try,

showmount -e nfs_server_name

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Tom Waits]

Thanks all! Sanjay hit right on.