[Sussex] Re: Setting up a simple home network

[Captain Redbeard]

Alright, time for a recap.

On the server, which I have named templeofthebeard and 
assigned the address 192.168.0.1, I have the following:

[/etc/hosts]
127.0.0.1         localhost

192.168.0.1       templeofthebeard.homenet templeofthebeard
192.168.0.2       shrineofthebeard.homenet shrineofthebeard



[/etc/hosts.allow]
shrineofthebeard.homenet



[/etc/HOSTNAME]
templeofthebeard.homenet



[/etc/exports]
/home/public 
shrineofthebeard.homenet(sync,no_subtree_check,rw,no_root_squash)



[/etc/networks]
loopback           127.0.0.0
localnet           130.100.100.0

(I never looked at this one before.  Should I change the 
second line to "localnet 192.168.0.0", add "homenet 
192.168.0.0" or can I ignore this file?)



[/etc/resolv.conf]
search homenet
domain homenet



[/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf]
IPADDR="192.168.0.1"
NETMASK="255.255.0.0"
GATEWAY="192.168.0.71
DEBUG_ETH_UP="no"

(Whoops!  GATEWAY was spelled wrongly, now corrected.)



The command "ls /home -l | grep public" gives:

drwxrwxrwx  1 root root    48 2005-04-28 21:14 public



The command "ps -A | grep portmap" gives:

2540 ?       00:00:00 rpc.portmap



The command "ps -A | grep nfsd" gives:

2564 ?       00:00:00 nfsd
2567 ?       00:00:00 nfsd
2568 ?       00:00:00 nfsd
2569 ?       00:00:00 nfsd
2570 ?       00:00:00 nfsd
2571 ?       00:00:00 nfsd
2572 ?       00:00:00 nfsd
2573 ?       00:00:00 nfsd



The command "ps -A | grep inetd" gives:

2546 ?        00:00:00 inetd



That covers pretty much everything I can think of for the 
server.  Now I reboot it and see what happens.

OK, this time there were no errors but curiously the line 
"/usr/sbin/rpc.inetd 8" did appear under the heading 
"Starting NFS services:" in the boot messages and doing "ps 
-A | grep nfsd" immediately after logging in still shows 
eight instances of nfsd running.  Is this some sort of 
config error?  Other than that, all of the files are 
unchanged and the commands still work as expected.

Now for the client, shrineofthebeard, 192.168.0.2:

[/etc/hosts]
127.0.0.1         localhost

192.168.0.1       templeofthebeard.homenet templeofthebeard
192.168.0.2       shrineofthebeard.homenet shrineofthebeard



[/etc/fstab]
.
.
.
templeofthebeard.homenet:/home/public /home/public nfs 
defaults 0 0



The command "ls /home -l | grep public" gives:

drwxrwxrwx  2 root root    48 2005-04-30 08:29 public



I'm also rebooting that to clear out any possible junk it 
may have picked up.

So now if I ping the server from the client and vise-versa 
everything seems to be in order.  Now I'll try the mount 
command again!

root at shrineofthebeard:~# mount -t nfs 
templeofthebeard.homenet:/home/public /home/public
root at shrineofthebeard:~#



OHMYGODITWORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now all I need to do is configure Samba so that I can get my 
XP laptop added, set up my Speedtouch USB modem to connect 
my server to the Internet, build and configure a third 
machine as an Internet gateway and router, configure an 
Apache web server for my sites, plug in two more machines 
for a-life experiments........



Captain Redbeard.



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