[Gllug] lan with SuSE 8.2

[michael norman]

> While Phil is correct that you don't need NIS, especially if you only
> have a few users, it helps a lot if the user numbers match, i.e. if user
> fred is number 501 on one machine it should be 501 on the other too.
> Otherwise files will show with the wrong ownerships. If you create the
> same userid when you are prompted to do so when installing and
> subsequently create the others in the same order on the two machines
> this should be the case anyway. A user can be created with a specific
> number with useradd -u as long as the number isn't taken.
>
> If you get problems with the server being reported as not responding
> even though it appears to be running, check that you don't have any
> firewall rules preventing NFS. To do this temporarily disable the
> firewall; if that makes it work then you need to look at the rules to
> see how they need to be modified. I can't help with this, I never run
> the SuSE firewall.
>
> If you want a more Windows like - i.e. with password based
> authentication rather than machine and user - file sharing mechanism
> then look at Samba and smbmount. While Samba is designed with the
> specific objective of sharing data with Windows systems it can just as
> well be used to share data between Linux machines and some people prefer
> it to NFS.
>
> Regards, Ian


Thanks to all who replied, I'll try your suggestions in a day or so.

Mike

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