[Wolves] Released from hospital

[Jono Bacon]

Hi Peter,

Glad to hear you are better. :)

  Jono

--- Peter Cannon <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote:
> 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
> -- 
> Regards
> Peter Cannon
> peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk
> 
> 
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Jono Bacon - http://www.jonobacon.org/
Professional Writer / Web Developer / Musician

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