Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!himacdonald
From: himacdonald@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Hamish Macdonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Getting workbench to mount a subdirectory...
Message-ID: <20599@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 90 19:53:19 GMT
References: <90036.140352EACONS@MTUS5.BITNET> <25085@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Reply-To: himacdonald@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Hamish Macdonald)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <25085@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> Kent D. Polk writes:
>In article <90036.140352EACONS@MTUS5.BITNET> Ernie Anderson writes:
>>   1) When we mount NFS (as sun: :-) it mounts it as the root directory
>>   of the sun, rather than the local directory we have set up.  This isn't
>>   a problem from the CLI, but we would like to use Workbench (Just to show
>>   that it can be done, we ARE sitting next to a MACII).  The obvious
>>   problem is that when we open the sun: disk icon, there isn't anything in
>>   it because there aren't any icons in the root directory of the sun.  What
>>   we want to know is how to make a disk icon that when opened, shows the
>>   contents of the local directory.  Can this be done?
>
>As I mentioned in jest last week, you can put lots of .info files
>starting with a Disk.info at the root. This doesn't look too clean
>and might raise the ire of your unix administrator though. ...
>...

You can change the 'snfs' program to have it's idea of the root directory
be different from the one there now.

Near the beginning of the NFs function is a line 'OpenHandle(...)'.
This opens "/" at the moment.  You could change this to open any directory
you want if you like.  If you made this your home directory,
(say '/u/himacdonald'), an open of 'NF0:Disk.info' would become an open of
'/u/himacdonald/Disk.info'.  I believe you can still type 'CD NF0://' which
would take you to '/' on Unix.

Good luck.

(I'm the friend Blair was talking about).

Hamish.
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