Hello Mark,
> 2. After firing up Linux on the PC, I was able to determine that I needed to
> at least activate the NFS daemons. So, I fired up nfsd from
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs and made appropriate links to that script in the
> runlevel subdirectories.
You don't have to make these links by hand. Just run setup and enable nfsd in
the system services section.
> 3. I then exported out a directory from the PC by placing an entry in
> /etc/exports and activating it by issuing an "exportfs -a" command.
How exactly? (/etc/exports)
> 4. Determined that I could hook up to this exported directory from another
> inhouse Sun machine on which I have an account.
Did you try to hook up the NT workstation at this stage? Succesfully?
> 5. After further research, determined that I probably needed to be running
> pcnfsd to allow the NFS clients on the PCs to hook up to this export.
Why is that? I thought pcnfsd is specifically for DOS PC-NFS clients, but I
might be wrong.
> 7. Tried to hookup from an NT workstation running the Maestro client.
> Maestro can see the exported share from the Linux box. Unfortunately, I am
> getting an authorization error even though I am supplying a valid account
> for the Linux box.
See Hidong's comment. If your hosts.deny file is not empty you will have to
edit your hosts.allow file as well. Apart from that you have to make entries
in your hosts file for the clients, unless you run DNS on you LAN(?).
> 1. Running "cat /proc/filesystems" does not list NFS as one of the
> filesystems.
You are not mounting any NFS filesystems are you? Just exporting. You don't
need NFS support unless you mount NFS exports (I almost typed shares :)).
> I am probably going to try recompiling the kernel from sources next.
You better wait with that! No need to complicate things.
> 2. I got the binary rpm for pcnfsd from the redhat contrib ftp site with
> support for shadow passwords which I have enabled. Should I just recompile
> this daemon from sources instead of using that binary rpm?? If so, where can
> I get the shadow password library stuff, because as near as I can tell it is
> not included in the install and compiling pcnfsd from source seems to
> require this library.
Cool it! Relaaaax! I never hooked up NT NFS clients, but I don't think you
need pcnfsd for that. Go back to step 4.
> 3. I have not tried Samba yet for sharing out this resource; however, that
> may be a possibility soon as well. Is it going to be much of problem with
> that and that this PC is not a part of the NT domain the other workstations
> requesting that shared resource would be??
You can set the NT domain with samba as well. Take care the "os level" in the
smb.conf does (not) exceed your NT servers'.
> 4. Are there any good resources (especially relating to pcnfsd) on the Web
> anywhere?? I have a number of NFS-related stuff @linuxdoc.org and done
> searches at www.google.com/linux. I was just wondering if there was anything
> more concise (or related). Maybe someone else has gone through these types
> of travail.
/usr/doc/HOWTO/* (if you have the second CD :))
Bye,
Leonard.
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