[Gloucs] GNU/Linux User & Developer magazine

[twalker48]

Hi there,
Sorry to butt in here. I am sure that the answers is comprehensive and all
that but my or is that there is actually a rather good basic networking
guide in Linux Format this month. I found it pretty useful apart from the
main subject it covers but also as it makes use of
$ kdesu kwrite
Which I hade not used before. Just my 2 cents.

Tom

P.S I will get rid of the hotmail address in good time.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Edwards" <guy_j_edwards at HotPOP.com>
To: "Gloucestershire LUG" <gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 1:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Gloucs] GNU/Linux User & Developer magazine


> On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 00:08, Francis Barton wrote:
> > (Guy can you bring the Slackware 9.1 CD with you if it worked ok
please?)
>
> oops was I downloading it? I'll get on that.
> I've got smoothwall 2.0 beta on cd too if anyone's interested.
>
> > Networking, right... Do you just connect up two machines with
> > a crossover cable and tell them their IPs, like oi you you're
> > going to be 192.169.0.1 and that one over there is going to
> > be 192.168.0.2 and wait for them to talk to each other?
>
> ok a little example
> two computers: a and b
> make computer "a" an ip address 192.168.1.1 it should automatically do
> the netmask for you e.g. 255.255.255.0
>
> make computer "b" as above but change the last number e.g. 192.168.1.2
> don't use 0 or 255 and stay between those numbers.
>
> You can connect the two together using a crossover cable or use two
> normal cables connected to a hub/switch.
>
> > I guess it's more complicated than that. Do I have to do something
> > clever with NFS for them to read each other? Also do they have to
> > somehow broadcast their IPs and if so how do I make them do that?
> > Help for this networking newbie appreciated please.
>
> You probably just one one NFS export that they can both read when you
> think about it? this should help anyway:
>
> make sure the nfs programs are installed. I think these are:
>   nfs-utils
>   nfs-utils-clients
>
> I use linuxconf to setup my nfs as I'm a coward. If you want to read
> each machines file system from the other using nfs then you need to
> export your desired folder/directory on each machine as a nfs export (I
> use /exports as a folder that's easy to remember).
>
> $> linuxconf --text
>     ---> networking
>         -----> exported file systems
>             -----> add
>
> type in
>  path to export   /exports or whatever you've chosen
>  client name      ip address of the other machine
>  select the tick box "may write" if you want to do that
>
>             ------> accept
>      -------> dismiss
>    -------> quit   (it'll probably say something like "something needs
> to be done can I make the changes" which you will probably want to say
> yes to)
>
>
> Then the way I'd do it is to mount it on the other machine as
> /mnt/fileserver or something similar. Again I'd use linuxconf to do all
> options as I find it really easy that way.
>
> You've exported the folder on the other machine before doing this, and
> it's just a long way of putting the following kind of example info into
> /etc/fstab: (should be all one line)
> 192.168.1.2:/exports /mnt/filesvr nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft 0 0
>
>
> $> linuxconf --text
>       ------> filesystems
>           -------> access nfs volume
>                -------> add
>
>  type in
>  server:  ip address of the other machine here
>  volume:  the path of the folder on the other machine e.g. /exports
>  mount point:  where you want to mount it e.g. /mnt/fileserver
>
>           --------> mount
>  did it work? did you get an error message? If it doesn't work check
> your folder names and IP addresses you've entered are right. If it did
> work just accept and leave.
>          ---------> accept
>         --------> dismiss
>       ---------> dismiss
>      ---------> quit
>
> The stuff from the other machine should now be in /mnt/fileserver.
> There's lots of other options with NFS as you'll have seen in linuxconf
> but thats just to get you going (and I don't know much more ;-) .
>
> Guy
>
>
>
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