On Saturday 02 Jan 2010 17:37:41 Stan Goodman wrote:
I want to provide filesharing between two oS machines. I have followed the directions of the page <http://en.opensuse.org/NFS> to install the server on a desktop machine (which is oS v11.1 for the time being, and wish to made a client on a laptop (oS v11.2). The directions on the page are simple enough; when I get a client up I will find out if they worked (the page, which is headed "NFS", never touches the subject of clients).
Neither do other such pages that I have found. In v 11.1, YaST admits to having a package called yast2-nfs-client, but I don't see this in v11.2 YaST. If I did, I wouldn't know how to load it.
It also has a package nfs-client-debuginfo, described as "Debug information for package nfs-clent. But there is no package nfs-info in the list.
Catch-22?
If you come from a MS environment, you'll find Yast does not provide the most intuitive way of setting up a share, if you know what you are doing its okay but you could spend a lot of time getting a share working if you don't. It would be nice to have a menu item in dolphin that says "Create/Map share" or something with useful GUIs to assist along the way. I hope i get this bit correct, i hope someone will correct it if i don't. Launch Yast on the target machine and select the NFS server option. This option always tells you to start the NFS server (it doesn't seem to know if its already running) then select a folder to share, be aware that the default options share the folder as "read only" so if you want to write to it, change the "ro" to "rw". Also make sure the user permissions on the folder selected will be usable to the client user permissions otherwise you'll get errors trying to copy. On the client machine, make sure you have an empty folder to use as a mount point for the share. Launch Yast and select the NFS client option. On the "NFS Shares" page, click <Add> button and then <Choose> button - this will search the network for NFS servers on the network, once you've chosen your server you can then press <select> to see the available shares. Then select your mount point, press <ok> and you should be "shared". Have fun. regards Ian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org