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From: craick@titan.trl.OZ.AU (John Craick)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Multiple NFS Peripheral Drives
Message-ID: <1991May23.233849.17808@trl.oz.au>
Date: 23 May 91 23:38:49 GMT
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cnar13@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:


>    I'm running PCNFS on an Apricot Qi. The software would appear to
>    provide the facility for mounting multiple peripheral drives.
>    What I want to know is if there is any way of configuring NFS
>    so that it recognises drives mounted on different hosts (or
>    is it the case that only one NFS Daemon can be specified?)
>    What I really want to do is mount diskspace from a Sun
>    Sparcstation as drive E: and diskspace on an HP workstation
>    as drive F:. No luck so far. 

>    Can anyone relieve me of my ignorance?

There maybe reasons why this doesn't work in your particular
circumstances but, in principle, and as far as I'm concerned, in
practice, what you want to do is quite straightforward. You merely use
multiple "net use [diskid] [\\host\path] " statements to mount as many
disks as you want on as many different hosts as you want.

There might be problems if you have different user names or passwords on
the different hosts (as I do) but there are ways around that as well.

I have had no other problems using Sun's PC-NFS but I must say the
Beames & Whiteside NFS doesn't seem quite so co-operative. That may not
be their fault because I am asking B&W to interwork with Sun NFS
daemons, which mightn't be entirely fair.

John Craick

Telecom Research
Melbourne, oz

(j.craick@trl.oz.au)