On 24 Dec 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 03:36, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I'm trying to set up plip on my desktop and laptop. Plip now runs, but > > I'm not sure how to continue. > > > > I'm working through the NFS Howto, with moderate success only. Anything > > else I should be reading? > > > > Question: is it essential to have a NFS server running on both machines > > or is portmap enough? If it is essential, I have a problem, because both > > nfs-kernel-server and nfs-user-server fail to install properly on my > > laptop. > > Describe moderate success? > > In lieu of that information I'll try to give a comprehensive list of > things: >
Thank you; very helpful. I think you've answered the rather unformed questions I asked. > Both server and client are going to need the nfs-common package. > Got that. > Server needs in addition to nfs-common, the nfs-kernel-server or the > userspace server. > Got that on my desktop; neither will install properly on my laptop, for some reason, but the desktop can presumably act as server and allow transfer in both directions? > Server's /etc/exports file is going to need the listing of filesystems > or directories to export prefereably with the ip address of the client > over the plip link instead of world access. Then exportfs -a -v should > tell you some information about exporting. > > The client needs nfs filesystem support in the kernel. Make the > mountpoint for the nfs drive on the client. mount server:/mountpoint > /mountpoint should do just fine unless you're going to need adjust > parameters for speed or performance over the PLIP link. I've been quite > happy with the defaults over switched ethernet networks, YMMV. If you > get a denial from the server it's going to take some work with the > /etc/exports file on the server to get it working. > This explains what I was unclear about; I'll try it out. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For an electronic book (The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 150 book reviews, go to: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. [Carl Sagan]
