On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 10:22:12AM -0600, Ken Thompson wrote:
-> Hello all.
-> I've been lurking for several months soaking up info as fast as I
-> can but still have a problem with networking my linux boxes
-> together. It seems that no matter which distro I use (RH 6.2 -
-> LM 7.0 - LM 7.1b) I set it up as well as I can following the
-> instructions in NET4 HOWTO and always get one of two messages.
-> RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused
-> netfs: Mounting NFS filesystems failed
-> or
-> RPC not registered.
-> I am leaning towards a security problem but don't know just what
-> to do or where to look.
-> Can anyone shed some light on this?
->
-> My exports file look like this:
-> [root@boss /root]# cat /etc/exports
-> /common 192,168,1.2(rw,no_root_squash,insecure)
I found I solved this problem by removing "ALL:ALL" from my
/etc/hosts.deny.
->
-> PS
-> Most of the documentation written in an understandable manner is
-> for setting up a Winderz - Linux network are there any docs on
-> NFS simplified to the point that a non network administrator can
-> read and understand them? Do I even need NFS, is ther another
Not that I know of; let us know if you find any such. Do look at the nfs
HOWTO, though.
-> way to set up a linux to linux network that's as good or better?
For Linux to Linux, nfs is the way to go. You could use samba, I suppose,
but I haven't tried it. I suspect you would loose file metadata like
permissions because samba emulates M$ file system metatdata, not Unix file
system metadata.
Once you have nfs up and running, you canpretty much leave it alone, so
that's what I would do. Indeed, that's what I have done.
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