Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

[Jeffrey Laramie <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 21 February 2005 06:39, John wrote:
> Fergus Wilde wrote:
> >On Monday 21 February 2005 11:05, John wrote:
> >>steve wrote:
> >>>On Monday 21 February 2005 10:49, John wrote:
> >>>>steve wrote:
> >>>>>On Sunday 20 February 2005 20:42, John wrote:
> >>>>>>/home is one of four directories that I wish to share
> >>>>>>(the others are custom, not part of the standard
> >>>>>>structure).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>When trying to configure NFS client in YAST (the server
> >>>>>>was also configured in YAST), it gives me the option to
> >>>>>>choose the NFS server hostname.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>use the IP of the server rather than its name and see if
> >>>>>that makes a difference.
> >>>>
> >>>>Yes that works.
> >>>
> >>>Good. Now you should be able to see /home on the client
> >>>where you mounted it. Yes?
> >>>
> >>>If you want to use the host name rather than the IP then add
> >>>the name and IP to the /etc/hosts file on the client
> >>
> >>Shouldn't DNS take care of that?
> >
> >Have you got a fully functioning DNS set up on your network?
>
> I hope so. Certainly, my web service (Apache) distinguishes between my
> domain names. However, whilst my XP workstation seems to resolve the
> FQDN of my Linux (SuSE 9.2) server, my laptop (also SUSE 9.2) does not.
>
> All of my configuartion has been with YAST; which files do I need to
> edit (and with what information) to sort this?

YaST->Network Services->DNS and Host Name

Make sure the IPs of the DNS servers is correct. If you don't use a Search 
Domain then you will need to use the fully qualified host name when naming 
the server in NFS (ie, myhost.mydomain).

Jeff