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.
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Les Mikesell
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