Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
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
I've checked the configuration in YaST as suggested and all seems as I would expect. My XP workstation resolves and pings all my DNS names but my SuSE9.2 laptop only returns unknown host. J