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["Mohamed Haidar" <mohedsuse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Knott wrote:
> 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.
Sounds pretty good, thx for the help. Now how would a basic script to do
that look like in general. Nothing specific , just some pointers or is
that outside the scope of the discussion.
Thx  guys for  the  help, very appreciated.

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