Linux to Linux

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Rick Stevens wrote:

> brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> Peachy.  Essentially, your /etc/exports file on the server would look
> like:
> 
> 	/home/brad	192.168/16(rw,no_root_squash)
> 
> To manually start the NFS server code:
> 
> 	/etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap start
> 	/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfslock start
> 	/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start
> 
> On the client, you'd add lines to your /etc/fstab that look like:
> 
> 	nfsserver:/home/brad	/mountpoint	nfs	rw 0 0
> 
> If you have that in /etc/fstab, the following two commands will start
> the NFS client code and automatically mount any NFS volumes it finds
> in /etc/fstab:
> 
> 	/etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap start
> 	/etc/rc.d/init.d/netfs start
> 
> If you don't have any entries in /etc/fstab, mount the stuff via:
> 
> 	mount -t nfs nfsserver:/home/brad /mountpoint
> 
> If you wish to make these permanent (start NFS server processes and
> mount them on the NFS client), then you can do the following:
> 
> On the server:
> 
> 	chkconfig --levels 2345 portmap on
> 	chkconfig --levels 2345 nfslock on
> 	chkconfig --levels 2345 nfs on
> 
> On the client:
> 
> 	chkconfig --levels 2345 portmap on
> 	chkconfig --levels 2345 netfs on
> 
> Note that this is only for NFS file sharing.  See "man exports" for
> details on the /etc/exports file and "man 5 nfs" for the available NFS
> options for /etc/fstab and the "mount -t nfs" command.  If you wanted to
> do it via Samba, I think you already know how since you apparently share
> that stuff with Windows already.  Just think of the Samba shares as
> Windows shares.
> 
> As to the printer, run the printer manager GUI stuff on the machine
> where the printer is attached ("system-config-printer" under FC2/3).
> Double click on the printer you want to share, then click on the
> "Sharing..." button at the bottom of the "Edit a print queue" box.  Put
> a check in the "This queue is available to other computers" and "All
> Hosts" should show up in the list of allowed systems.  Click on "OK",
> then click on the "Apply" icon in the "Printer Configuration" box to
> restart the queues.
> 
> Wait a few minutes for the shared queue to get broadcast, then go to the
> client machine and bring up its printer manager.  The queue from the
> server machine should show up in the "Browsed queues" list.  Just double
> click it, select it as the default, set up the queue name and driver and
> you should be good to go.
> 
> Note that the printer(s) exported from the server will be running the
> "IPP" protocol (internet printing protocol, TCP/UDP port 631), should
> you need to access them from a machine that doesn't have a GUI or that
> can't browse queues on the net.  If you need to access it via a URL,
> "ipp://printserver/queuename".  RFC 3510 describes the IPP URL.
> 
> Hope your brain doesn't bleed after all that!  :-)

OK, the first part - no problem.  I don't seem to be able to 
"share" my printers.  My server is running RH9.0 ans there isn't 
a Sharing option that I can find in the setup.

Thanks,

Brad