Hello I have two SuSEs - 9.1 (name = svn, 192.168.0.11) on an old box destined for the scrapheap and 9.3 (name = zak, 192.168.0.10) on a new box intended to replace svn. I am not sure how to connect them. I tried unsuccessfully to mount the directory I am interested in on svn as "/svn" on zak. Logged in as root, this is what didn't work ... zak:/ # mount -t reiserfs 192.168.0.11:/srv /svn The first error was that /svn didn't exist so I created it. The next error was that "special device [everything I tried]" doesn't exist. This is the first time I have ever tried mount and got all my ideas from man mount. Where am I losing the plot? TIA Mike
On Sep 13 at 12:57pm, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
I have two SuSEs - 9.1 (name = svn, 192.168.0.11) on an old box destined for the scrapheap and 9.3 (name = zak, 192.168.0.10) on a new box intended to replace svn.
I am not sure how to connect them. I tried unsuccessfully to mount the directory I am interested in on svn as "/svn" on zak. Logged in as root, this is what didn't work ...
zak:/ # mount -t reiserfs 192.168.0.11:/srv /svn
The first error was that /svn didn't exist so I created it. The next error was that "special device [everything I tried]" doesn't exist.
This is the first time I have ever tried mount and got all my ideas from man mount.
Where am I losing the plot?
You are trying to mount a filesystem type used for directly attached disk drives, not a filesystem on a different computer. For that, you need to use NFS, the Network File System. One computer acts as a server, exporting (part of) a filesystem, and the other is a client, mounting the exported filesystem. The actual filesystem type on the server is irrelevant, for the most part. See "man nfs", "man nfsd", "man mount" (esp. -t nfs), "man exports" Jim
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