Nother question, on nfs this time

[Gene Heskett]

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