[opensuse] Installing and using an NFS client
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? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Saturday, 2. January 2010 schrieb Stan Goodman:
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?
Install the package nfs-client and then try: mount your-server:/your/directory /mnt This only works if you've exported /your/directory on your-server to your- client, started the NFS-server and opend the firewall for NFS. Christoph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2010-01-02 at 19:37 +0200, 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).
Forget it all :-P In the server, fire up yast, select setup nfs server, follow the steps. In the client, same thing, but client, and follow the steps. That's all :-) For testing, setup both on the same machine. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAks/6h4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WP+ACfTwopmeIpgTst3l7UDxaTjtuw WWsAoJXbIbY7ph3Sr9AYzjJkQaVKDHkA =CsGj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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
At 10:49:36 on Sunday Sunday 03 January 2010, ianseeks <ianseeks@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
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
This is a feature that I would have overlooked. Thanks for pointing it out.
available shares. Then select your mount point, press <ok> and you should be "shared".
I won't have to do that, as the target directory and its mount point are already defined in fstab.
Have fun.
regards
Ian
-- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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