Solaris™ 8 Advanced System Administrator's Guide, Third Edition

Setting User Configurations

The following sections describe what you need to do to set up the user environment to access files on the application server.

Mount Points

In a general implementation, each user system needs to have a mount point directory; for example, /usr/apps.

Mounts

You can mount files from an application server when you use NFS. You can mount files either by editing the /etc/vfstab or with the automounter.

If you use the /etc/vfstab file, edit it on each user's system and add a line that looks like the following.

#device     device       mount       FS      fsck    mount     mount
#to mount   to fsck      point       type    pass    at boot   options
#
server-name:/usr/apps -  /usr/apps   nfs     -       yes       ro

For example, to mount from an application server named oak, become superuser ...