You can connect as many computers by NFS as you like but I suggest having one computer as a fileserver and the rest as clients. You can run into complicated situations where foo won't boot (unless you rewrite the boot scripts or do it interactive) until bar is responding and bar won't boot until foo is. It can be fixed but it's easier to avoid it. If you have specific NFS/NIS questions email me directly. *^*^*^* Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Ken Thompson wrote: > Hello all, > is it really possible to connect two linux computers together with NFS? > Ping, FTP, Telnet all work just fine, I can even export an X-Windows session, > but no cross mounting of exported directories. > I've been trying to do this for nearly a year with very limited success. > I can usually get one computer (foo) to connect and be able to read the > exported directory of the other computer (bar) but have never been able to get > (bar) to read the exported directory of (foo). > I have tried with several different computers and several different distro's > with the same results, ie: foo will mount bar's export but bar will not allow > foo to mount, keeps getting an error message. > Error messages are usually " unable to mount, connection refused or RPC not > registered.. > My college instructor is of the opinion that it can't be done. > What I want to do is to have the 4 computers in my home network be able to > mount and share files accross the network like I do under <ugh> Winderz. > TIA > -- > Ken Thompson > Payette, Idaho > >
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