----- Original Message ----- From: "Nerijus Baliunas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 7:53 PM
> Brian Ford wrote: > > >>After selecting sunrpc manually and installing it, nfs-server-config > >>installed all 3 services succesfully, but I cannot mount from > >>neither Sun nor HP box, both give me for the first time: > >> > >># mount -F nfs 172.31.1.38:/tmp /c > >>nfs mount: mount: /c: No such file or directory > > > > Well, did /c exist before you tried to mount on it. AFAIK, most OSs > > require that. > > Of course. > > Nerijus Don't know if someone else have seen this problem. I did, and found this message from a Google search, but no answer. After some tests, I came to a base rule: file systems mounted without a 'real' directory behind, cannot be nfs-exported. So, to correctly export /c containing the root of the C: windows drive, you need to actually create the directory hidden behind the mountpoint. Easier to do than to say: Execute a 'mount' command without any parameter, you should get an output like this: C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) c: on /c type system (binmode,noumount) d: on /d type system (binmode,noumount) This means that your cygwin root is actually c:\cygwin. To be able to nfs-export any directory from the windows drives, you just need to create 'c' and 'd' directories under C:\cygwin from DOS Command Prompt: md c:\cygwin\c md c:\cygwin\d from cygwin shell mkdir /c/cygwin/c mkdir /c/cygwin/d Hope this helps someone. Ciao, Angelo Turetta -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/