From: "Guolin Cheng" <guolin@alexa.com>
Subject: RE: auto-discovery of exports?
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 16:01:39 -0700
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To: "Michael" <mogmios@mlug.missouri.edu>,
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Hi, Michael,

 Run shell command "showmount -e|--exports <server_to_be_questioned>".
If you would like to scan your network to check each host, run a for
loop, and in the loop put another command "rpcinfo -p
<server_to_be_questions>  |grep nfs" to make sure whether the nfs server
is running on the host, if so, run the showmount command to query the
exported file system from the host.=20

 Read manuals you will get more options, although the above should be
enough for your purposes.

 --Guolin Cheng


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael [mailto:mogmios@mlug.missouri.edu]=20
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 1:04 AM
To: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [NFS] auto-discovery of exports?

Windows with the SFU add-on, allowing it to work as an NFS client,=20
manages to scan my network for NFS servers and then show the exported=20
filesystem under each of those servers. How could I implement the same=20
thing in Linux?

I ask because I want to write a program that autoscans my network for=20
certain files (images, music, video) that are readable and displays them

in a nice viewer to the user without needing to go searching for them. I

want the system to be flexible enough that it can allow machines to be=20
plugged in and out of the network and still detect those shared files=20
when available without any effort by the user.


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