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.
LLaP
bero
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