On Sat, 17 November 2001, Derek Jennings wrote: > > 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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