[Sussex] Help with NFS

[David Chapman]

Success
Thanks Karl

Just for clarity
Is there any difference between 
	192.168.0.0/24(ro,sync)
and
        192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(ro,sync)

On Wednesday 02 March 2005 15:24, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> Upon a 2nd reading of the mail, somethin stood out...
>
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:29:59PM +0000, David Chapman wrote:
> > ...
> > I have my machine which is SuSE 9.2 which I want to
> > share /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt (this is were downloaded updates are stored)
> > to the other 2 computers that run SuSE
> > When I try to add this to the computer my boys use (nitrogen.home.lan) my
> > computer does not show up as hydrogen.home.lan  but will show as
> > 192.xxx.xxx.xxx
> > trying to mount this share ends with connection refused by server.
> >
> > contents of /etc/exports
> > /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/	192.168.0.*(ro,sync)
>
> According to exports(5) wildcards are not reliable when used with IP
> addresses. So you may want to try:
>     /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/	192.168.0.0/24(ro,sync)
> or
>     /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/ 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(ro,sync)
> instead
>
> Hope this helps