Samba is the way to go. I have not had any luck with NFS, regardless of the fact that I am mounting a Linux FS. Below //Manduck/Netlogon is the directory I wish to mount. While /Manduck is the mount point. Note the comma. Brian Marr mount -t smbfs //Manduck/Netlogon /Manduck -o username=xxxxx,passwd=xxxxx On Friday 14 December 2001 16:51, you wrote:
I have some fat32 partitions which I have mounted on my workstation and which I would like to serve over NFS. I assume this would be the best way to go--since I'll be sharing between Linux machines only, I've no need for Samba, correct?
Well, I kept running into "permission denied" errors when I tried to mount these partitions from my server (which is the NFS client in this case). After grinding through a score of man pages and how-tos, it dawned on me that I might try sharing a native Linux file system first, as a control test. This worked. Then I realised exportfs had been silently choking on my /etc/exports file, for I ran 'exportfs -ra' and got back an 'Invalid argument' message for each of those vfat partitions. And I've now tr ed many combinations of options in the exports file, but nothing does the trick. Is it even possible to share a vfat partition over nfs, and if so what do I need here? I'd like to keep these files (MP3s, etc.) on the fat32 system, because I still need to run Windows for certain things.
--Jason Van Cleve