[Wolves] Released from hospital

[Peter Cannon]

Hi All

Some of you will be pleased to hear I am semi back in circulation. The
operation went OK but it is taking a little longer to recover than I
anticipated.

Firstly some even better news for Dave & Adam.

!! I got NFS working today !! cast you're minds back, I wanted to connect my
laptop (Fedora) to my quasi server (Suse)

Dave and Adam pointed me in the right direction, I will admit that I was
getting pretty grumpy because I just couldn't get it to work.

I could ping both ways so that was good. then I had an idea, I have smb4k
installed on the laptop, which as you all know, is a samba type front end
(or at least that's my understanding so don't all start shouting) anyway I
figured if I could get that to work then there must be a file type problem
so a couple of clicks later and hey presto fanny's your aunt I have a
connection via smb4k. "Ah but that's a Linux to Windows" I here you say,
true but it gave me peace of mind that the network was fine so I must be
doing something wrong in terms of entries to either hosts, hosts.allow or
hosts.deny.

I then discovered ethereal (which again I presume you all Know) now I really
like this, looks good, tells you who is contacting who and what is failing
(but not why I hasten to add) I went out and bought Red Hat Linux Bible (not
cheap, I nearly had to be readmitted to hospital the guy behind the counter
said "you alright mate? you've gone ever so pale") this is a great book and
that gave me the clue/nudge that was needed, make a totally unsecured sloppy
connection! To cut a long story short I took down the IPTables server on the
laptop, which is a firewall I believe, and whoopee requested the mount on
the laptop, I had tcpdump running on the pc, saw the approval looked at the
mnt folder on the laptop and there it was my shiny new nfs mount.

Now all I have to do is figure out how to get it working in conjunction with
iptables.

Thanks for all the fish! and the answer is 42

Peter Cannon
peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk