[rescue] IRIX nfs

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Sun, 8 Sep 2002 jodys at helluin.org wrote:

> Well I was able to pick a indy pretty cheap (R4400/200) with most bits
> included... except media. The machine does have a fairly fresh install of
> 6.5.13, but for some reason the nfs packages are not installed. Which makes it
> rather hard to use the machine as a workstation (which it does amazingly well
> at otherwise). 
> 	So the question is how to remotely mount a file system? The machine
> that the indy would be talking to mostly is a Sparc20 running solaris 2.9.
> I've so far tried several different things,
> 
> a) trying to install DCE/DFS from sgi
> 	the kernel components of the package seem to conflict with the 
> 	already installed kernel
> b) netware
> 	I'm not finding any free software out there that emulates a 
> 	netware server
> c) appleshare
> 	yet another package that I do not have a license for

Why don't you just use samba? They have precompiled versions for irix and
solaris... And it is free.

Cheers.