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I can't thank you enough for answering both my questions so quickly! I'm not able to get to my Linux box right now, but I'm sure it will work. I really appreciate the great explanation, I was unable to find anything on my own about this. I had heard of NFS, but I wasn't sure if that was what I was supposed to use or not. Now I know. Thanks again! |
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[08-05-2000] lrasmussen : How do you share files over a Linux network? I have to Linux boxes (RH6.1) and am curious to know how they can share files. Although I hate to make the comparison, I am wondering if there is anything like Network Neighborhood that is used, and if so where can I find more information about setting it up? I have used Samba, but I thought that was for mixing Win and Linux. Any help is appreciated!
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[08-06-2000] saintly : There ae several methods of sharing files over a UNIX/linux network. You are correct about Samba; its intended purpose is to share files between UNIX and Windows.
The traditional file-sharing system on Linux is NFS (Network filesystem). I believe support for NFS is enabled by default in RedHat.
First, on the machine that wishes to share its filesystems, edit the file /etc/exports. Create a line that looks something like this:
/filesystem hostname.to.export.to
You can usually only export an entire filesystem, not just a part of one. If I have two machines named 'foo' and 'bar', and want 'bar' to be able to access the /usr filesystem on 'foo', I would add the following line to 'foo's /etc/exports:
/usr bar
Then restart the nfs daemon on foo to force it to read the changes you made to the /etc/exports file. Try
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs restart
or if NFS is not running at all:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start
Now on the 'bar' system, you need a place to mount 'foo's shared filesystem. Once you mount it, you can treat foo:/usr as if it were a local directory.
mkdir /mnt; mkdir /mnt/foo
Now mount the remote filesystem:
mount foo:/usr /mnt/foo
And test it:
ls -l /mnt/foo
should show you the contents of foo's /usr system. You can cd to /mnt/foo normally, all of the subdirectories in foo's /usr are accessible to you.
There are other security options you can use as well. I'd recommend reading the following guides from RedHat about NFS:
http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-6.2-Manual/ref-guide/s1-sysadmin-nfs.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/NFS-Tips/NFS-Tips.html
There is also an O'Reilly book; 'managing NFS and NIS' you might want to look at, but it is a bit outdated at this point.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/nfs/
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