instant 9p connection between two machines

instant 9p connection between two machines

[William Gunnells]

Trying to find a better way than the 3 lines below

server% aux/listen1 -tv tcp!*!9999 /bin/exportfs -R -r / 
client% srv tcp!ip.of.server!9999 server /n/server 
client% ls /n/server


This seems to work. but ties up two windows of course. I wondering if there is a better way

I guess I wanted to do something similar to 9front. Where you type 
9fs 9front and you have everything in /n/9front

Re: [9front] instant 9p connection between two machines

[Alex Musolino]

There is indeed a better way.  See rcpu(1).

Adding custom entries to 9fs is something I have done by having my own
9fs script in $home/bin/rc which falls through to /rc/bin/9fs if it
doesn't find a match.  E.g.

#!/bin/rc

switch($1){
case wdnas
	if(! test -e /srv/wdnas)
		cifs -s wdnas wdnas Public
	mount /srv/wdnas /n/wdnas
	bind /n/wdnas/public /n/wdnas
case hg
	bind -ac /dist/plan9front /
case *
	exec /rc/bin/9fs $*
}