On Monday 21 February 2005 11:39, 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.
Yes ... you mean you have a correctly set up DNS server on your local network that resolves the names of all the machines on that network? (sounds like you don't?) If not, you should put the names of the machines involved into the /etc/hosts files of the local machines (if your network is modest in size) or set up such a DNS server, though this is non-trivial as far as I'm aware. If, for example, you add a line like this to the /etc/hosts file of your laptop: [valid ip address] linuxserver.example.com linuxserver Then your laptop will translate instructions like 'ssh linuxserver' as 'ssh [valid ip address]. That ought to work for NFS too. $ man hosts has the details. HTH Fergus
All of my configuartion has been with YAST; which files do I need to edit (and with what information) to sort this?
Thanks
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