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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > I fed it a network filesystem (NFS) from my desktop.  
> 
> Does this mean you can access all the files on the desktop 
> from your laptop?

Yes.  Both reading and writing (rw in /etc/exports).
You can also give root priviledges to the client
(no_root_squash in /etc/exports).

> > --------------------------------------------------
> > 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?  

No.

> Or put one line in the exports and type the next three lines CLI?

Yes.  /etc/exports should look something like this:
----------------------------------
/   192.168.1.7(rw,no_root_squash)
----------------------------------

> The server is the desktop?

Yes (although you can do it the other way round if you wish).

> > mount -t nfs server_address:/  /mnt
> 
> Does this mount all the files on the desktop to /mnt on the laptop?

It mounts / on the server to /mnt on the client.
You can change either of those in the mount command.

Cheers,
Steven