NFS question

[Dave Andruczyk]

--- Stephen Burke <qfwfq at adelphia.net> wrote:

> While I have not yet been able to completely abandon M$ around here, at 
> least whatever hard drive has windows on it is also now dual-booted with 
> some flavor of GNU/Linux against the inevitable time when the M$ side 
> simply crashes and burns for no apparent reason (which seems to be 
> happening regularly).
> 
> One of the final hurdles has been to find a flavor  of linux that would 
> play nicely with my usb2 external hard drive.
> 
> I have found that flavor here: http://www.blagblagblag.org/
> I have mentioned BLAG here before, but that was fc1, and this is 3.
> 
> It's sort of a FC3 without the hassle for those of us hammering on 
> ancient hardware and unwilling to replace it while it still works. 
> BLAG3000 works beautifully on it.
> 
> The main job of that PII is just to share what's on the usb drive, which 
> it does a pretty good job of. I have been sharing the drive with samba, 
> but I would rather not, if I can help it.
> 
> The Linux NFS-HOWTO (which is about all I've been able to find on the 
> subject -copies availble far and wide) uses the command
> 
> # mount master.foo.com:/home /mnt/home
> 
> but I don't know the command for mounting in a workgroup setting without 
> the .com. Trying just mount master:/media/usbdrive /home/qfwfq/usbdrive 
> gives me:
> 

try "mount ip_of_server:/home /mnt/home  replace "ip_of_server" with its IP
address (i.e .192.168.0.10)


You can use a name if you add a host alias of hte server in /etc/hosts
i.e. in /etc/hosts add:
192.168.0.10 nfs-server

Then you could use "mount nfs-server:/home /mnt/home"



Dave J. Andruczyk

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