mount cdrom over nfs

[Andrej Vavro]

Hi all,

There is SuSE 7.2 with cdrom mounted in /media/cdrom. I can't mount this from my HP (10.20 nor 11.00) using

mount -F nfs -er host:/media/cdrom /mntdir

Better said: I can mount it but there is nothing in the mntdir. I believe Linux setup is OK cause I can mount if from Solaris. So question is what is the syntax? NFS clients are running. Is there needed any additional setup?

Thanks
Andrej

[Claudio Cilloni]

I tried this:

on HP-UX 11.22:

# mount -F nfs 192.168.1.10:/mnt/cdrom /test

and it works well.

192.168.1.10 is a RH7.3 linux box.

it's a different configuration but... maybe it helps. I didn't use the -er options.

on the linux side, /mnt/cdrom is exported in /etc/exports with this line:

/mnt/cdrom dbsermm(ro,all_squash)

where dbsermm is the HP-UX machine.

bye
Claudio

[Jerome Henry]

I do not understand either the -e option, -r for read only, should be the same in your exports file.

Apart from that Claudio is right, try it his way it should work with rh8 too.

J

(leaving now, passing the torch to Balaji and Claudio !)

[Evert Jan van Ramselaar]

Do you get anything relevant in the logfiles, on either client or server?

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

You don't need special setup for nfs client.
I also don't understand why you use -er.
Check without the -er
Do you have another nfs mount in your system?
Check how you mounted the cdrom in the linux.

Caesar

[Balaji N]

hi
i doubt.

i have tried earlier mounting a CD ROM which is locally mounted via NFS on a remote system.

the error i used to get was too many levels of export or something similar. the OS was all HP Unix.

so is it the same problem what you are having.

i would suggest you to try this. if it works, just let us know.


mount -o bind /mnt/cdrom /mnt/newdir

export this newdir and then try mounting if it works.

-balaji

ps: the work i do on hp unix is reducing slowly and my knowledge on hp is turning rusty. somebody offer me a job on hp unix?

[Andrej Vavro]

The -e switch means verbose in HP-UX.

Balaji, it should be 10 pts for you. Your solution helped. Send a reply and I'll give rest of the points. :-)

I was able to mount both newdir as well as /media/cdrom from HP.

I am not able to share cdrom without re-mounting it on linux. I checked this after assigning points. So again Balaji, I'am sorry for not enough points.

Thank you all,
Andrej

[Balaji N]

hmm.. ok. good that it works.

-balaji

ps: at the risk of being figured as a point monger, i reply to this mail. coz, the no of points u get on this forum is minimal compared to the hp unix counter part. :-)