Original Post:
A user is on a Sparc 5 running Sun OS 4.1.3_UI. ( Box name is SanJuan ) It
wishes, in its infinite usertude, to latch onto our only resident Solaris
2.4 Box ( a Sparc 2 named Roosevelt ) partition. This Partition is a
hypernifty ProDev Evaluation partition, with a 30 day license.
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The big question remains -- how do older systems mount younger
systems? as in this case
Solution:
The Solaris Box needs to do the equivalent of an export of 4.X kind. In
solaris, this is done using the /etc/dfs/dfstab file instead of /etc/exports.
editing the file to include the solaris partition in question was pretty
straight forward. Info is available in man pages for dfstab, share, and
share_nfs. This means that when you boot, the partition comes up shareable.
Another way of doing it for a short spell that does not involve persistence
thru reboot is 3 steps for the SOlaris Box:
1. share -F nfs /mydamnfiles
2. /usr/lib/nfs/nfsd 16
3. /usr/lib/nfs/mountd
And one step on the Sparc 5
Mount
The RPC Error "Program not Registered" encountered here before all this
occurred is due to the system saying "RPC error is equivalent to "its not being
shared - nana nana na na." ( thanks steve! )
Many Thanks expressed to those who did answer:
Steve@opensys.com
hkatz@lehman.com
jab@nrg.com
baumann@proton.llumc.edu
grevemes@vtc.tacom.army.mil
msturt@nma.mnet.uswest.com
joel@virtualvegas.com
boyd@ccpo.odu.edu
--dan
Can't Wait for Solaris 2.5 Certification in October!
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