On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 22:56 +1000, Elliott-Brennan wrote: > Hi, > Very new to Linux. I've created a RH 9.0 server (at home), with Webmin > interface. I can access the server (for file transfer etc) on my Win2000 > machine (easy!) BUT cannot for the life of me (ironically) workout how > to connect my Mandrake 10.0 machine. > > I've looked around for directions, but most seem to be about using Samba > to connect to Win machines - I don't need or want to do that.
Well, as the other poster suggests, NFS is what you really want, but you
can get the same functionality as your Windows box just by using samba.
Are you using GNOME on your desktop? What happens if you enter
smb://<other computer's ip>/
into nautilus' location bar? If that works then look into 'smbmount' and
you'll get basic file serving setup very easily.
IIRC there's a tool to setup an NFS server on Redhat, but I can't
remember what it's called. Once you get the server setup, you can just
put a line in /etc/fstab on your mandrake box to get it to mount
automatically. The line would look something like this:
server:/exportdir /mnt/nfs nfs noauto,ro,nosuid,soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
Replace 'server' with your server's name, 'exportdir' with the directory
you export via nfs, and /mnt/nfs with the directory you want it to
appear under locally.
The next issue you're likely to hit is with mismatched UIDs between the
boxes, but get the machines talking before you deal with that.
And you'll need to have the 'nfs' and 'portmap' services running on your
server and the 'portmap' service running on your mandrake box (I think).
HTH,
James.
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