On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 12:55 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 10:47, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Mainly because the alternative everyone wants me to try, cannot be > > made to work, NFS. Any and all attempts to setup an NFS share have > > been met with a 'no permission' response from the server, this box, > > even though I am running as root for 99% of what I do. I come back > > to the list with exact copies of the files you request, and everyone > > goes away shaking their head because they don't have an answer as to > > why I cannot make it work here. Its supposed to Just Work(TM), but > > it doesn't. With all due respect, samba works for everything but > > level sensitive backups, and amanda or rsync steps up to the plate > > and makes a home run everytime. > > NFS does 'just work' except perhaps with your configuration and > firewalling. There are some security issues related to NFS but > if you aren't concerned about network users being about to > spoof others you should be able to make it work. > In defense of what Gene said, there was a considerable long thread about his problem with nfs, and in spite of everything he tried it seemed to just not work. (his /etc/exports and /etc/fstab files looked correct, and he stopped/restarted the services or rebooted with every change as well as having firewalling turned off, but it refused to cooperate.) A reasonable alternative to nfs is samba in his environment. If you can help him get NFS to work, please, by all means, try to do so. > -- > Les Mikesell > les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >
