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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> I've been doing some work on one of my old laptops and needed
> some extra workspace, so I fed it a network filesystem (NFS)
> from my desktop.  Here's how:

Does this mean you can access all the files on the desktop from your 
laptop?

> Step 1 - Establish a TCP/IP network between the two computers
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> activate the network cards on both computers (insmod)
> assign address to each card (ifconfig)
> check the connection (ping)

I have done this for file transfer purposes.

> Step 2 - Activate NFS server
> --------------------------------------------------
> edit /etc/exports   --->     /  client_address(rw)
> rpc.portmap
> rpc.mountd
> rpc.nfsd
> --------------------------------------------------

I don't understand what you did here.  Do you put four lines in 
/etc/exports that look like the above four lines?  Or put one line in the 
exports and type the next three lines CLI?

The server is the desktop?

> Step 3 - Activate NFS client
> ------------------------------------------
> insmod sunrpc (not needed for bzimage.big)
> insmod lockd  (not needed for bzimage.big)
> insmod nfs    (not needed for bzimage.big)
> rpc.portmap
> mount -t nfs server_address:/  /mnt
> ------------------------------------------

Does this mount all the files on the desktop to /mnt on the laptop?

> Please note that both the NFS server and client run happily
> on the default BL3 kernel.  Three modules are required for
> the client (but not the server) when the default kernel is
> used.  When the big kernel is used, no modules are required
> for the client.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven

Sindi

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