brad mugleston 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! :-)