From: Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] getting at Windows files from VMware-hosted Plan 9
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 17:59:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200205020059.g420xkvQ012820@ducky.net> (raw)
First of all, here is a cute 1-liner for running u9fs without inetd
(useful if your local system administrator refuses to run u9fs from inetd,
or you hate rhosts-style authentication, or whatever...)
% ssh myname@remotehost u9fs -a none -u myname <[0=1] | echo 0 > /srv/remotehost
% mount /srv/remotehost /n/kremvax
I thought people might be interested in how I'm using this: I have an ssh
daemon running on my Windows box at work, courtesy of Cygwin. I run Plan 9
under VMware on the same box.
I ported u9fs to Windows, again courtesy of Cygwin. (Main changes: Cygwin has
no setre[ug]id(), no ruserok(), no <inttypes.h>, and no pread()/pwrite().
Diffs available upon request.)
So, in my VMware-hosted Plan 9 running under Windows, I do the following:
% ssh Administrator@windows u9fs -a none -u Administrator <[0=1] | echo 0 > /srv/windows
% mount /srv/windows /n/kremvax
% bind /n/kremvax/cygdrive/c /n/c
and thus I can use /n/c from VMware to look at the windows partition, just
as if Plan 9 were running on the bare hardware.
Moreover, this hack allows Plan 9 to see the contents of any SMB file server
that the host Windows environment can access. Very useful if you're stuck
in a mixed network of evil operating systems.
next reply other threads:[~2002-05-02 0:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-02 0:59 Mike Haertel [this message]
2002-05-02 1:47 Russ Cox
2002-05-02 20:20 ` Mike Haertel
2002-05-02 1:57 rob pike, esq.
2002-05-02 20:39 Scott Schwartz
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