The following task map describes the tasks need to access removable media on a remote system.
Task |
Description |
For Instructions |
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1. Make local media available to remote systems. |
configure your system to share its media drives to make any media in those drives available to other systems. | |
2. Access removable media on remote systems. |
Access the remote media on the local system. |
You can configure your system to share its media drives to make any media in those drives available to other systems. One exception is musical CDs. Once your media drives are shared, other systems can access the media they contain simply by mounting them. For instructions, see How to Access Removable Media on Remote Systems.
Become superuser.
Confirm that the media is loaded.
Add the following entry to the /etc/dfs/dfstab file.
For example:
share -F nfs -o ro /cdrom/sol_10_910_sparc |
Determine whether the NFS server service is running.
# svcs *nfs* |
The following output is returned from the svcs command if NFS server service is running:
online 14:28:43 svc:/network/nfs/server:default |
Identify the NFS server status, and select one of the following:
If the NFS server service is running, go to Step 7.
If the NFS server service is not running, go to the next step.
# svcadm enable network/nfs/server |
Verify that the NFS daemons are running.
For example:
# svcs -p svc:/network/nfs/server:default STATE STIME FMRI online Aug_30 svc:/network/nfs/server:default Aug_30 319 mountd Aug_30 323 nfsd |
Verify that the media is indeed available to other systems.
If the media is available, its share configuration is displayed.
# share - /cdrom/sol_10_910_sparc ro "" |
The following example shows how to make any local DVD available to other systems on the network.
# vi /etc/dfs/dfstab (Add the following line:) # share -F nfs -o ro /media # svcs *nfs* # svcadm enable network/nfs/server # svcs -p svc:/network/nfs/server:default # share - /cdrom/sol_10_910_sparc ro "" |
The following example shows how to make any local diskette available to other systems on the network.
# vi /etc/dfs/dfstab (Add the following line, for example) share -F nfs -o ro /floppy/myfiles # svcs *nfs* # svcadm enable network/nfs/server # svcs -p svc:/network/nfs/server:default # volcheck -v media was found # share - /floppy/myfiles rw "" |
You can access media on a remote system by manually mounting the media into your file system. Also, the remote system must have shared its media according to the instructions in How to Make Local Media Available to Other Systems.
Select an existing directory to serve as the mount point. Or create a mount point.
$ mkdir /directory |
where /directory is the name of the directory that you create to serve as a mount point for the remote system's DVD.
Find the name of the media you want to mount.
$ showmount -e system-name |
As superuser, mount the media.
# mount -F nfs -o ro system-name:/media/media-name local-mount-point |
Is the name of the system whose media you will mount.
Is the name of the media you want to mount.
Is the local directory onto which you will mount the remote media.
Log out as superuser.
Verify that the media has been mounted.
$ ls /media |
The following example shows how to automatically access the remote DVD named sol_10_910_sparc from the remote system starbug using autofs.
% showmount -e starbug export list for starbug: /cdrom/sol_10_910_sparc (everyone) $ /net/starbug/cdrom/sol_10_910_sparc |
The following example shows how to automatically access myfiles from the remote system mars using autofs.
$ showmount -e mars $ cd /net/mars $ ls /floppy floppy0 myfiles |