Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!olivea!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!shodha.enet.dec.com!alan From: alan@shodha.enet.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Bookreader CD-ROM shared between nodes? Summary: Use NFS. Message-ID: <3439@shodha.enet.dec.com> Date: 21 Jun 91 22:06:51 GMT References: <1991Jun21.145958.265@abbott.com> Organization: Digital Equipment Corp. - Colorado Springs, CO. Lines: 17 In article <1991Jun21.145958.265@abbott.com>, larry@abtlabs.uucp (Larry Pajakowski) writes: } We are ordering the CD-ROM package for our RISC boxes which includes the } Bookreader. If I have 2 nodes do I have to order 2 such packages or can I } use 1 CD-ROM for both nodes? Put the CD reader on one system and arrange for it to export the file system. Then other systems on the network can NFS mount the Bookreader directory. Having the 2nd CD reader could be useful because you do the thing with some other CD. } Larry Pajakowski -- Alan Rollow alan@nabeth.cxn.dec.com