Configuring Access to Remote Data

In HP VUE, remote data files are accessed using NFS mounts.

Once the remote file systems are mounted, File Manager provides theses mechanisms for accessing remote files:

Using the Remote Systems directory.
Using fully-qualified file names.

To add a host to the Remote Systems directory

Configure the remote host to allow NFS-access by the local host (/etc/exports).
Mount (either with automount or manually) the remote host's file system to the local host. The mount point for the remote file system must be /mount_point/remote_hostname.

The user can browse files on the remote system by using the hostname:/path to specify a directory, or by choosing Remote Systems from the File Manager Directory menu. The Remote Systems directory is /mount_point.

To NFS-mount a remote file system

File Manager and actions use NFS mounts to provide easy access to remote data files. Usually, the remote system files are mounted under /mount_point/hostname.

On the data host. The data host is the system whose files are being accessed.

Log in as root.
Run SAM. (If the system is running HP VUE, you can run SAM using the action in the System_Admin subdirectory of the General Toolbox.)

In SAM, select:

   Networking and Communications 

   Networked File Systems 

   Exported Local Directories

Choose Add from the Actions menu.
Follow SAM's on-line help to provide permission for the local system to mount the file system on the data host. The local host must be able to mount directories containing the data files it needs to access.

On the local system. If you have the default configuration with automount running and /net as the mount point, you do not need to do anything on the local system.

Follow these steps if you do not have automount running:

Log in as root.
Double-click Sam in the System_Admin subdirectory of the General Toolbox to run Sam.

In SAM, select:

   Networking and Communications

   Networked File Systems 

   Mounted Remote Directories

Select Add Remote Directory from the Actions menu.
Follow SAM's on-line help to mount the data host's file system under /net/hostname.

See Also.

The documentation on Networked File Systems contains additional information about NFS mounting.

If you try to access data not correctly mounted

If the user tries to access a remote directory that is not correctly NFS-mounted, an error message is displayed telling the user that the attempt failed. In addition, the following message is written to /HomeDirectory/.vue/errorlog:

   vuefile: Can't connect to hostname.  No mount point.

Configuring Access to Remote Data

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To add a host to the Remote Systems directory

To NFS-mount a remote file system

If you try to access data not correctly mounted