Hi, > I ended up going with Samba because I couldn't figure out how to open up > my firewall (yes, I use a firewall on my desktop even though I'm behind > one of those D-Link cable modem routers) to open ports correctly to let > NFS through. I'm not sure what's worse. To turn off my firewall > completely or to use Samba because getting it to work through my > firewall was easier. NFS is a RPC-based service, so you have to run the portmapper daemon and open its port (111). NFS itself uses port 2049. You also need to configure tcpwrappers (/etc/hosts.[allow|deny]) so your clients can connect. Have you read the NFS HOW-TO? Once you have NFS working, you'll want to have all machines share the same password database (to use the same uids/gids). The easier way is to use NIS (more ports to open on your firewall, I can't remember which one, and haven't found on /etc/services). Trust me, don't try LDAP until you can make NIS work. :-) []s, Fernando Lozano
