Subject: sharing automounted file systems
From: Michael Kilgore (kilgore@lobby.ti.com)
Date: Tue Jun 15 1993 - 16:33:04 EDT
If an automounted Sun file system foo is one of my AppleShare choices, it may
be that I can't mount it on the mac (if it isn't Sun-mounted already). Or the
mac may lose foo if the Sun decides that nothing has touched foo in a while.
All that is as I should expect, since Wesley Craig tells me that afpd doesn't
do anything special about periodically touching mounted file systems. Keeping
a Finder window open avoids the second problem but not the first; or setting a
symbolic link to foo from a permanently mounted Sun directory addresses both
problems at once. But I wonder if anyone has a more graceful way of mounting
on demand, one which (unlike the link trick) does not force foo to remain
mounted until the link is broken? Thanks for any suggestions.
(I am using na 1.3d2 with a Sun running 4.1.3, but I suppose what I have seen
is not specific to that configuration.)
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Michael Kilgore Texas Instruments, Inc.
(214) 917-2219 kilgore@lobby.ti.com
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