Thanks, Craig-

You have profoundly overestimated my computer literacy.

Additionally, I don't have a manual entry for "exports," at least, not 
on my Mandrake box. I did dink around with the box a bit, and now the 
output of # cat /etc/exports is /home/lee Mepisbox(ro). I don't know if 
that is a good thing or a bad thing. It looks like it permits read only 
access to /home/lee by something named Mepisbox ( I named my laptop 
Mepisbox.) RO access should be fine, I don't want my laptop to be 
writing to my PC home directory at this time. I just want to be able to 
back up my PC home directory to my laptop prior to doing things (like 
reinstalls or distro changes) which would otherwise put me at risk for 
permanent loss of my files.

 From here I am lost. Maybe I got lost prior to this, I don't know. I 
get that my PC is my server, my laptop is my client, but I don't 
understand the significance of

linuxserver.azapple.com:/home /home/linuxserver



Would you mind dumbing this down for me a bit? What is linuxserver? What 
is azapple.com? If I follow you, the entry in my /etc/fstab file would 
be to create a mount point for my PC home directory, but I don't 
understand how or why that works, or how to implement.

Thanks,

Lee

Craig White wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 16:55 -0700, Lee Einer wrote:
>  
>
>>I have a PC running Mandrake Linux 8.2, and a laptop running Simply 
>>Mepis. Both are connected to a D-Link 624 router, the PC via cable, the 
>>laptop via wireless card. I would like to back up my home directory on 
>>the PC to my laptop through the router.
>>
>>Is this feasible, and what do I need to do to accomplish it?
>>    
>>
>----
>from the 'server'
># cat /etc/exports
>/home   (insecure,no_root_squash,rw)
>
>then the 'client'
># a single line in /etc/fstab 
>linuxserver.azapple.com:/home  /home/linuxserver  nfs  user  0  0
>
>or you can do this manually...
>mount -t nfs linuxserver.azapple.com:/home /home/linuxserver
>
>files you may wish to check for options...
>man mount
>man exports
>
>this is all as root. /home/linuxserver has to
>exist...mkdir /home/linuxserver first before you can mount it there.
>
>Craig
>
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