Thank you again, Craig-

I think I grok it at least in part. Have installed NFS on the 
MandrakeBox and will do needed IP thingies and file and directory 
creation when I am again lucid.

Nuthin fancy for now. Static IP should work in my little world without 
DHCP, etc.

Lee

Craig White wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 19:38 -0700, Lee Einer wrote:
>  
>
>>Thanks, Craig-
>>
>>You have profoundly overestimated my computer literacy.
>>    
>>
>---
>no you need to play with it
>---
>  
>
>>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
>>    
>>
>----
>OK if on your Mandrake box...
>
>cat /etc/exports
>/home/lee Mepisbox(ro)
>
>#should be OK but how is your Mandrake box gonna know who/what Mepisbox
>is? I use dns so that would resolve.
>
>so your gonna have to get the ip address of your Mepisbox
>on the Mepisbox, type 'ifconfig' note the ip address
>add that to /etc/hosts on your Mandrake computer
>i.e.
>192.168.1.5    Mepisbox.mydomain.com  Mepisbox #or simply Mepisbox
>
>doing the 'vice-versa' is good too...
>on your Mandrake box get the ip address and add it to /etc/hosts on your
>Mepisbox
>i.e.
>192.168.1.10   Mandrakeboxname
>
>If you are using dhcp in your home - this all is subject to change at
>poweroff... ;-)
>
>Anyway, you probably have to start nfs service - don't know how on
>Mandrake but likely /etc/init.d/nfs start will work
>
>also - if you have firewall, you will have to open some ports (port 2049
>I think and possibly port 111)
>
>Then on your Mepisbox you can simply type...
>
>mkdir /home/mandrake
>mount -t nfs Mandrakeboxname:/home/lee /home/mandrake
>
>and when that all works, you can 'umount /home/mandrake' to unmount
>and ultimately (for repetitive use) add it to /etc/fstab...
>single line
>Mandrakeboxname:/home/lee  /home/mandrake  nfs  user  0  0
>
>Craig
>
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