# Basic question for making remote mount points

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**Created:** [November 16, 2005, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/basic-question-for-making-remote-mount-points/157522 "2005-11-16T12:33:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![FredSmith](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/fredsmith/32/6_449c533f586939b6e5f246632a46421f.png) [@FredSmith](https://community.unix.com/u/FredSmith)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/basic-question-for-making-remote-mount-points/157522/1 "2005-11-16T12:33:13Z")

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I'm on SunOS 5.8.

I'm not sure of the exact terminology, but I want to make a "remote mount" from my server to another server. (Basically I want to create one of the mount points on my server be a shared volume that's on another server here). So if I do a df -k, I want to see all of the volumes on the server, PLUS the volume I connect to on the other server.

How can I do this?

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**Author:** ![RTM](https://community.unix.com/user_avatar/community.unix.com/rtm/32/58_2.png) [@RTM](https://community.unix.com/u/RTM)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 9:45am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/basic-question-for-making-remote-mount-points/157522/2 "2005-11-17T09:45:09Z")

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Check out the [Sun docs on NFS](http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/806-0916?q=share)

Check out the man page for share, nfsd, unshare, mountd

Check out /etc/rc3.d/S15nfs.server, /etc/dfs/dfstab

Simply put your file system to share into /etc/dfs/dfstab - for security reasons, you should specify which system can mount it.

This shares out /opt2 to myotherserver with read/write for root account  
share -F nfs -o rw,root=myotherserver -d "description" /opt2

This shares out /uu to any server with read-only  
share -F nfs -o ro -d "some description" /uu