On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 22:59, Ron Stodden wrote: > I was please to see that the 9.0 installer provides on the left an > option to install an nfs client. > > But it is of little use to do that without also installing nfs-utils, > which it neglects to do. I first reported this in 8.2. > > nfs-utils provides exportfs, among other things. exportfs is required > to set up your /etc/exports so that other machines on your LAN can mount > things of yours that you permit to that machine via exportfs.
exportfs is used on an NFS *server*, not on a client. An NFS client mounts file systems from other systems. An NFS server lets other systems use some or all of its local file systems. My system here is perfectly happy as an NFS client, and does not have nfs-utils installed, just nfs-utils-clients. Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/
