Thanks Paul, i tried that and got it running now. What's the purpose of exportfs? Should i issue that command whenever i change exports in /etc/exports? I think that was the problem before... I appreciate your help. On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 10:51, Paul Howarth wrote: > A. Lanza wrote: > > i have two machines running FC2 in the same LAN and i want to share > > files between them. I'm used to do this in Windows environments through > > shared folders. After reading some doc. it seems like NFS could be an > > option to share files between machines. > > > > I have set up and running NFS server on the file server machine and i > > have exported /home/alanza. The line in /etc/exports reads like this: > > > > /home/alanza (ro) > > Try changing it to this: > > /home/alanza *(ro,sync) > > Then run "exportfs -av" to re-export the filesystem. > > Make sure that services portmap, nfslock and nfs are running on your server. > > > Are there other ways to share files? > > Persevere with NFS, it's the best way. > > Paul.
