Dylan wrote:
On Monday 25 Jul 2005 21:47, Donald D Henson wrote:
Dylan wrote: I did but I don't think I understood the options. Based on Ken's recommendations, I have changed the IP address of both machines (toshiba = 192.168.100.10 and linux = 192.168.100.20). Assuming this solves one of my problems, what next?
1) Name Resolution:
on toshiba, add the address for linux to /etc/hosts:
192.168.100.20 linux.site linux
similarly for toshiba in linux's file. In both cases, make sure there is a blank line at the end of the file.
Did that and the penny dropped. I've never thought of the /etc/hosts file as part of the name resolution process. For the first time, /etc/hosts makes sense to me. You said to make sure there is a blank line at the end of the file. Is that essential or just a good idea?
2) Set the export on toshiba to:
/home/dhenson/Documents/UOP/ 192.168.100.0/24(ro,root_squash,sync)
then restart the NFS service (if you are using yast it'll restart the service for you.)
I used YaST and substituted a host name for the IP address.
On linux, try to explicitly mount the the export (as root):
mount -t nfs 192.168.100.10:/home/dhenson/Documents/UOP /mnt
then see if you can ls /mnt
Yea. Everything works. I sincerely appreciate your hanging in there with what must sound like a bunch of stupid questions. Unfortunately, much of the documentation in the Linux world makes a lot of assumptions about how much the reader already knows. Troubleshooting a specific problem with knowledgeable individuals like many of you on this list goes a long way toward clarifying concepts in my own mind. Thanks again.
Dylan
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