NFS-Mounting Your File System

The Shore Value-Added Server is, among other things, and NFS daemon and a Mount daemon [SGK85]. If you configure and run the server as it is distributed, the NFS and Mount services will be available. If you want to use them, you have to mount the Shore file system as an NFS file system on one or more of your workstations.

Take the following steps for each workstation from which you want NFS access to the Shore file system:

1. Identify or create a Unix mount point, which is an empty Unix directory on your workstation.

2. The installed bin directory must be in your (super-user's) path.

3. You will run the script mnt, which takes 2 arguments: the name of a host, and the pathname for the mount point you have chosen. It calls the program smount (also in the installed bin directory) with a string of arguments, the last two of which are constructed from the host name and the mount point.

   You can use the script mnt as it is, or you can edit it if you want to use different arguments to smount. You can also just use smount directly. See the manual page smount(SHORE) for assistance.

4. Check the mount. You don't have to be super-user to do this. Type mount or smount and see if your mount point shows up in the mount table.

Instructions for Linux Users

The mount program that comes with Linux actually has the features that Shore needs and therefore there is no need for the smount program. Unfortunately, due to a bug in the the linux version of mount is still cannot be used for mounting Shore file systems. Instead, a fixed version of mount is shipped with Shore and is installed in the bin directory in place of smount. In the above instructions, replace the use of smount with mount and mnt with mnt.linux. See your Linux mount manual page for more information.