Sharing the local file system on another machine

Question

Version : 5.10
We have an HP Proliant machine and a SunFire V40 machine. Both installed with solaris 5.10 (x86 AMD).
In HP proliant machine we have filesystem with 600gb . We would like to mount this file system in the SunFire V40 machine . Is this possible? If yes, could you guys point me an URL where steps are mentioned to do this.

Answer 1

Hope this is how one determines Filesystem type (got this from googling)Nope. There are several ways to determine the filesystem currently being used:
$ mount | grep filesystem (where 'filesystem' is all or part of the mount point)
/etc/vfstab will normally tell you (so long as it's not zfs)
$ fstyp {mountpoint}
sun.com links i get by Googling are taking me Oracle documentation homepage !We moved from docs.sun.com to the Oracle Documentation site last week and not all links have been updated. It's work in progress at this time. The Solaris 10 documentation can be found here - http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19253-01/index.html
And this is the link to the start of the NFS section - http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19253-01/816-4555/rfsintro-2/index.html
I wouldn't worry too much about getting the systems to auto-mount at boot until you've tested it manually. I'll assume this is a UFS/VxFS filesystem (ZFS requires a slightly different approach). If everything works, you can use the dfstab on the server and the vfstab on the client to automatically share and mount the filesystem so it persists across reboots.
You'll need to do something like this as a test:
On the HP System (the NFS Server) you'll need to enable the NFS Server SMF Service:
server> $ svcadm enable svc:/network/nfs/server:default
On the client enable the NFS Client SMF Service:
client> $ svcadm enable svc:/network/nfs/client:default
Back on the NFS Server you now need to share out the /foobar filesystem:
server> $ share -F nfs -o rw /foobar
Check the share using dfshares or mount
server> $ dfshares
server> $ mount
On the client you can then mount the filesystem:
client> $ mount -F nfs -o rw nfsserver:/foobar /foobar2
The above is saying mount the exported /foobar filesystem residing on 'nfsserver' host to a local mountpoint of /foobar2 on this client.
As a test you can also use the Automounter by simply cd'ing to the exported filesystem:
client> $ cd /net/nfsserver/foobar
Hopefully after reading the documentation you should get a working setup.
Regards,
Steve