There is a good tutorial on NFS at www.mandrakeuser.org
On Saturday 17 November 2001 06:38, Brian Parish wrote: > Can anyone help me with NFS? I understand that NFS shares are created > using /etc/export, but what do I put in there? > The /etc/exports publishes a list of folders available to be mounted by other computers. This is an extract from mine. /home/abi 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw) # Abi Home /mnt/windows 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw) # windows partition After changing the exports file type 'export -ra' to update the advertised exports. > Control Center then allows me to do NFS mounts - prompts for Server and > shared resource. I presume that server is just the host name associated > with an IP address and shared resource is whatever I put in /etc/exports??? > ?? Not sure what you are referring to. You do not need control centre to mount shares. To mount a share on a remote computer the best thing to do is to have it listed in your /etc/fstab file. Here is an extract from mine:- VAIO:/home/rosie /mnt/rosievaio nfs user,rw,soft,noauto,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 Andy:/home/andy /mnt/andySIS nfs user,rw,soft,noauto,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 Here Andy and VAIO are remote computers (Listed in my /etc/hosts table), the block size of 8192 makes for faster file transfer (the default is 4096), The 'soft' parameter means that if 1 computer is switched off the share will become unmounted. A 'hard' share will keep trying to remount the share ad infinitum. This is a pain because it will 'hang' during shut down if the remote computer is not switched on to gracefully unmount the share. No auto means it will not automatically mount at boot. 'auto' will make it mount at boot. I can mount these shares easily with 'mount /mnt/rosievaio' for example. Kwikdisk is handy because then you can mount a remote file share by clicking on an icon in the system tray. Be warned NFS is not very secure. Avoid using it on lans exposed to the internet, and at the very least insert all hosts which may use NFS in /etc/hosts.allow, and all IP ranges on the same seg who are not permitted into /etc/hosts.deny To use NFS you must have portmapper, the nfs daemon, and the nfslock daemon running. Refer to the howto in mandrakeuser. (Obviously the remote computer must be running them too) Derek > Any help much appreciated!
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