Can't mount NFS export

[Paul Howarth]

A. Lanza wrote:
> i have two machines running FC2 in the same LAN and i want to share
> files between them. I'm used to do this in Windows environments through
> shared folders. After reading some doc. it seems like NFS could be an
> option to share files between machines.
> 
> I have set up and running NFS server on the file server machine and i
> have exported /home/alanza. The line in /etc/exports reads like this:
> 
> 	/home/alanza	(ro)

Try changing it to this:

/home/alanza	*(ro,sync)

Then run "exportfs -av" to re-export the filesystem.

Make sure that services portmap, nfslock and nfs are running on your server.

> Are there other ways to share files?

Persevere with NFS, it's the best way.

Paul.