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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Mounting character devices w/NFS
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Date: 29 Aug 90 17:27:11 GMT
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In a recent article tdd@convex.cl.msu.edu (Thomas D. Davis) writes:

>I'm having an awful time trying to so something seemingly simple.  I've
>exported my /dev directory from one Sun (say machine A) and mounted it
>on another Sun (machine B).  I can see all the entries in this directory
>from B, but when I try to perform I/O on a character device (eg. ttya)
>it just plain doesn't work.

For things like these, you would need AT&T's RFS (Remote File Sharing),
which preserves all UNIX file semantics over the network.

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