On Sunday 20 January 2002 09:27 pm, you wrote: > Another way would be to configure your DHCP server to use Dynamic DNS, > since (if I remember correctly) you can put hostnames in the > /etc/exports file rather than IP addresses. > > On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 20:29, jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: > > I think that the easiest way to do NFS in a network with DHCP is to > > set-up the MAC address of the NFS server to receive always the same > > ip-address... This way, you can use the same /etc/exports file and, > > since the NFS server receive it's ip address from the DHCP server, you > > don't have to worry if you set up a fixed address in the NFS server and > > somebody getting that ip... > > > > HTH > > > > orlando Thanks guys, both are good suggestions but over my head for now. Lets look at this from a different angle; Let's make a simple 2 computer network sharing files using NFS, call them joe at 192.168.1.100 and moe at 192.168.1 101. Joe has /home/moe mounted on /mnt/moe and moe has /home/joe mounted on /mnt/joe. Now joe decides he wants to remove his modem and the telephone line for it and share moe's connection to the internet. So far, so good - - UNTIL: using the wizard changes the network over to DHCP and now neither joe nor moe can share files... Now in nearly everything I read it is expected that you (the user) are using a broadband connection and have 2 NIC cards in yer machine <not>..... Moe has a dialup connection and joe has just trashed his modem and line... Now what????? How do they get file sharing back??? Single NIC per machine and 1 modem in the moe machine. I thought at first I should be able to use the moe machine's IP for the gateway for the joe machine but that didn't seem to work, or possibly I just configured it wrong.. BUT there has to be a way to use the existing NFS network and still get Internet connection sharing.. Any thought's?? Thanks all,
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