On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 00:22 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: > 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. ---- I don't go looking for problems to solve If Gene genuinely wants to solve his NFS issues - he can post up his situation and he will get help. He's happy with samba - otherwise, he would have persevered to get it working. I have found NFS to be the easiest of all network / file sharing setups of all...(comparing SMB/Windows AFP/Macintosh) Craig
