| From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Hidong Kim wrote:
|
| > I have two networked Linux machines, ripley and weaver. ripley has a
| > dds-2 tape drive. I want to access ripley's tape drive from weaver. So
| > I added ripley and weaver to each others /etc/hosts.equiv. How I can
| > access ripley's tape drive from weaver with a command like 'tar tvf
| > ripley:/dev/st0' issued from weaver.
|
| This can't work. NFS exports the device numbers, not the device itself. If
| you access a NFS mounted /dev/fd0, you're still accessing the local
| floppy. Same for tapes, harddisks, soundcards, ...
|
| What you want to do is using ssh or rsh to execute the command on the
| remote machine.
If I remember correctly, when presented with name:/dev/ice, Gnu tar
uses rmt(1) or, failing that, rsh(1) to access a remote tape. This
has nothing to do with NFS.
I'd RTFM, but the man page is incomplete and I can't stand info(1).
Try seeing if you can (have permission to) run rmt on ripley from weaver.
Hugh Redelmeier
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