On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 15:39 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > I have not previously used nfs, mainly because I could never get it to > > work on FC2 and below systems. > > > > However I'm now equipt with an FC5 lappy. and this FC6 tower, so its time > > to see if I can make it work, I have about 10G's of a wedding movie to > > transfer. > > > > I have, using system-config-nfs, set up shares of / with full r/w perms on > > both machines. > > > > Now my question is "how do I mount that share on the other machine?" > > > > man nfs somehow isn't leading me down the garden path for this. > > > You need to read the mount man page instead. What you are after is > something like: > > mount -t nft <server>:<share> <mountpoint> > > mount -t nfs server.localnet.net:/data /mnt/network > > In /etc/fstab, you would use: > > <server>:<share> <mountpoint> nfs defaults 0 0 > > A couple of things to keep in mind - user number, and not user name > control access, so if gene is 501 on one machine and 512 on the > other, he will not be able to access the nfs mounted files. Also, by > default, root is mapped to user nobody, and so has almost no access > to nfs mounted file systems. ---- of course this mini-tutorial doesn't consider the issues of firewalls & portmap, both of which will be a monkey wrench in the process, which is why I made the reference to the 'Brennan Home Networking Guide' Craig
