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- From: curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806)
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- Subject: Re: Device sharing through NFS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.053000.15299@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 05:30:00 GMT
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- lah@unh.edu (Lance A. Hartford) writes:
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- > SMIT has an option for allowing shared device access through NFS
- >mount points. How do I take advantage of this? If I mount /dev from a
- >server and try to access the devices in that directory, I get this
- >error:
-
- >There is a request to a device or address that does not exist.
-
- u can't do that if u're tryin 2 do what it sounds like u're thinking u can do
-
- if the client has a device connected, u can have the device file actually
- reside on a server and still use the device on the client. this is
- mainly useful in the diskless case
-
- but if u're trying to have several clients use the same printer or whatever
- on the server via nfs, bzzzzzzzzzt
-
- the nfs protocol doesn't do that. statelessness and all that rot
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