File Sharing

[Mark Jarvis]

*nix file sharing (aka NFS) works best and easiest between machines that 
are NOT running individual firewalls. In that case they MUST have a 
really good firewall machine sitting between them and the net.

AAMOF, if someone knows of a simple tutorial on how to configure a Linux 
box's firewall to allow NFS traffic but block just about everything 
else, I'd REALLY like a pointer to it. The only times I've gotten NFS to 
work, it was on boxen with firewalls off. In that case, it's dirt 
simple--but you gotta be behind a really tight firewall box.

-mj-

Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 01:47 -0700, Glitch wrote:
> 
>>Hello All,
>>
>>  I could really use some help with some networking stuff. I have a
>>couple of Linux computers on a network together but don't know how to
>>make them see each other. What I need is the equal to drive mapping in
>>windows. I think that I might be able to do this through NFS but I am
>>not even sure how. So please any input on the issue would be great. I
>>am trying to connect two PC's running Suse 9.3. Both computers have
>>routable IP addresses and I cannot through SSH and FTP without issue
>>just need something more like network file access.
>>
> 
> -----
> SuSE may have some 'how-to' on NFS and networking issues.
> 
> You probably have to consider firewall can block stuff so if you have
> these computers on the same network, try to make this work with the
> firewall settings off on the computers at first.
> 
> Now for the 'how-tos' - always check tldp.org (the linux documentation
> project)
> 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html/
> 
> see the 'networking' and 'NFS' how-tos
> 
> Craig
> 
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