Mohamed Haidar wrote: > James Knott wrote: >> Mohamed Haidar wrote: >> >>> Mohamed Haidar wrote: >>> >>>> I would like to know how to go about configing NFS with dynamic IP. I >>>> have three computers at home and all are connected to the a switch >>>> witch >>>> in turn is connected to the internet provider. The problem is that my >>>> ISP assigns Ip's dynamically. All my computers have linux on them. >>>> Thx >>>> in advance for any help you guys. >>>> >>> What i would like to do is to have a network at home with shared >>> folders. I asked around and people suggested NFS. I have three linux >>> computers with openSuse 10.2 on them. My isp hands me three separate >>> IP's witch are dynamic. All the computers is connected to the same >>> switch. >>> Now I can't say I have read all the man and info pages but i have read >>> a bunch of them including some online howtos. The general idea seams to >>> be that the IP's should be static witch is a luxury i dont have. I >>> could >>> go with the hostname method mentioned above but I need some explination >>> and some guidelines. I'm not using yast for this, im managing the >>> conf-files manualy. I dont thing that getting the NFS service going >>> is a >>> problem, either server or client, its just that I don't know how to >>> handle the dynamic IP issue. >>> Very great full over the advise guys. >>> >> >> Make sure you're not sharing your computers to the internet. You can >> get a dynamic DNS service, which will follow your IP address. You can >> also run a script in Linux, whenever the IP changes. There is provision >> for this in the DHCP client. >> >> > Sounds pretty good, thx for the help. Now how would a basic script to do > that look like in general. Nothing specific , just some pointers or is > that outside the scope of the discussion. > Thx guys for the help, very appreciated.
Generally, it would let the dynamic DNS service know about the new IP address. I've never worked with one of those, so I don't know the details. I still think it's a bad idea to place your local network directly on the internet. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
