On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 10:38, listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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. :-) Problem is, all of that is way overboard, I think. In my case we're talking about two computers sharing directories on my home network. I don't think it's worth going to all that trouble just to share some videos, etc. Preston
