Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2859 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mohamed Haidar wrote:
> Mohamed Haidar wrote:
>> I would like to know how to go about configing NFS with dynamic IP. I
>> have three computers at home and all are connected to the a switch witch
>> in turn is connected to the internet provider. The problem is that my
>> ISP assigns Ip's dynamically. All  my computers have linux on them. Thx
>> in advance for any help you guys.
>
> What i would like to do is to have a network at home with shared
> folders. I asked around and people suggested NFS. I have three linux
> computers with openSuse 10.2 on them. My isp hands me three separate
> IP's witch are dynamic. All the computers is connected to the same
> switch.
>  Now I can't say I have read all the man and info pages but i have read
> a bunch of them including some online howtos. The general idea seams to
> be that the IP's should be static witch is a luxury i dont have. I could
> go with the hostname method mentioned above but I need some explination
> and some guidelines. I'm not using yast for this, im managing the
> conf-files manualy. I dont thing that getting the NFS service going is a
> problem, either server or client, its just that I don't know how to
> handle the dynamic IP issue.
>  Very great full over the advise guys.

Make sure you're not sharing your computers to the internet.  You can
get a dynamic DNS service, which will follow your IP address.  You can
also run a script in Linux, whenever the IP changes.  There is provision
for this in the DHCP client.

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