On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 03:36, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm trying to set up plip on my desktop and laptop. Plip now runs, but > I'm not sure how to continue. > > I'm working through the NFS Howto, with moderate success only. Anything > else I should be reading? > > Question: is it essential to have a NFS server running on both machines > or is portmap enough? If it is essential, I have a problem, because both > nfs-kernel-server and nfs-user-server fail to install properly on my > laptop.
Describe moderate success? In lieu of that information I'll try to give a comprehensive list of things: Both server and client are going to need the nfs-common package. Server needs in addition to nfs-common, the nfs-kernel-server or the userspace server. Server's /etc/exports file is going to need the listing of filesystems or directories to export prefereably with the ip address of the client over the plip link instead of world access. Then exportfs -a -v should tell you some information about exporting. The client needs nfs filesystem support in the kernel. Make the mountpoint for the nfs drive on the client. mount server:/mountpoint /mountpoint should do just fine unless you're going to need adjust parameters for speed or performance over the PLIP link. I've been quite happy with the defaults over switched ethernet networks, YMMV. If you get a denial from the server it's going to take some work with the /etc/exports file on the server to get it working. --mike
