Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Re: Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020307 3:18 > > > > 1. The nfs-utils rpm is still not being installed, even though > > nfs-utils-clients is. > > Sounds normal since one is for server us, the other for client > use.
Oh dear, this is NOT true. nfs-utils contains all the nfs utils which includes exportfs. Without exportfs you cannot set up either a client or a server for networking. exportfs is a necessary utility for any networked PC. It makes the "shares" (nominated directories) as specified manually by the user in /etc/exports available to specific peer and server machines on the network. > > 2. Even though the exportfs is set up correctly, another machine on the > > network which is running Mandrake 8.0 will NOT connect across different > > kernel versions (Permission refused). It is impractical to require > > all the machines on a Linux network to be using exactly the same kernel > > version and release of Linux. By virtue of the release numbering > > convention 8.0 must be compatible with all later 8.n releases. This > > includes networking. > > Any idea on the origin of this problem? No.It looks like bad management of the kernel implementation. Another user here claims there is no problem, but by his context he is only talking about simple TCP/IP and not about its array of carried protocols like nfs. -- Ron. [au]
