On Sunday 12 November 2006 16:39, 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. no_root_squash seems to fix that. I won't leave this setup like I described though, too big a hole when I turn the wheels under the lappies case. :( >Mikkel >-- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, >for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- Cheers, Gene
