On Thursday 27 March 2008 19:35:57 Les Mikesell wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 27 March 2008 18:58:16 Scott Silva wrote: > >> on 3-27-2008 11:40 AM Anne Wilson spake the following: > >>> On Thursday 27 March 2008 17:01:13 Les Mikesell wrote: > >>>> Anne Wilson wrote: > >>>>>> It seems like a kludge to use cifs to share between two linux boxes. > >>>>> > >>>>> Because I would have to do samba anyway, as windows laptops from > >>>>> other family members want to access from time to time. They always > >>>>> bring them to me if any configuration work or maintenance needs > >>>>> doing, and even to work on my LAN when their network is down for any > >>>>> reason. In particular, one directory that I samba share is a > >>>>> repository that my daughter and I both need access to, and its > >>>>> content changes fairly often. I didn't want to have to run two > >>>>> systems for sharing. > >>>> > >>>> You can do both fairly easily and transparently. The usual reason for > >>>> not using NFS is that it isn't secure if client users have local root > >>>> access (or can boot something that would) - but that probably doesn't > >>>> matter for a home setup. > >>> > >>> I guess that when I've nothing more urgent to do I ought to read up on > >>> NFS. > >>> > >>> Anne > >> > >> NFS will be much better for the linux to linux connections because it > >> passes native system calls on the files instead of a protocol that is > >> emulated and made to work. > > > > OK - apart from man pages and general googling, any particular > > recommended reading? > > It's not that complicated unless you want automounting. On the server, > edit /etc/exports and add something like: > > /home 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,async,no_root_squash) > (your client subnet, of course) > and > service nfs restart > (or exportfs -a if it is already running) > > and on the clients where you want the same /home mounted > in /etc/fstab add: > server_name:/home /home nfs exec,rw,bg,soft,intr 0 0 > and 'mount -a' > > You need to have consistent login name to uid mapping across machines > and all the usual 'yum install nfs', chkconfig and service invocations > apply for installing and managing it. With any luck I'll get some time tomorrow to take a look at that. Thanks Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080327/0a5dc3de/attachment-0004.sig>