Re: [expert] NFS Networking Questions

2000-10-11 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 09:20:45AM -0600, Ken Thompson wrote: > Hello all, > is it really possible to connect two linux computers together with NFS? > Ping, FTP, Telnet all work just fine, I can even export an X-Windows session, > but no cross mounting of exported directories. > I've been trying t

Re: [expert] NFS Networking Questions

2000-10-11 Thread Michael
You can connect as many computers by NFS as you like but I suggest having one computer as a fileserver and the rest as clients. You can run into complicated situations where foo won't boot (unless you rewrite the boot scripts or do it interactive) until bar is responding and bar won't boot until f

[expert] NFS Networking Questions

2000-10-11 Thread Ken Thompson
Hello all, is it really possible to connect two linux computers together with NFS? Ping, FTP, Telnet all work just fine, I can even export an X-Windows session, but no cross mounting of exported directories. I've been trying to do this for nearly a year with very limited success. I can usually get