Thanks for the help from Santanu Sinha. I am using 'exportfs' after your mail.
And for Debarshi Ray's question, yes something like that happened, which I interpreted as coming from reading only the first line from /etc/exports, and now that I know this is not true, I don't know why it happened. Let me report it. Because in my router the mac address is not fixed with IP-s, it assigns anything between 192.168.1.2-35. And sometimes when I connect the laptop with WL, it assigns 5, and at times it is 3. In the same way usually it assigns 2 or 4 with the desktop. Now, because I did not know NFS fully well (and I am too old and lazy to read the NFS howto thoroughly) I was going some commonsense (later I discovered it to be common nonsense) way for the NFS to work. What I did was that, for every IP from 2 to 7 I wrote a line in /etc/exports, because the '*' regular expression was not working for me, and I copied the same file in both the desktop and the laptop. Now, when I tried NFS, the desktop machine was getting mounted from the laptop but it was not working the other way round. I interpreted it as that because only the first line was read, so the 192.168.1.2 thing was getting activated which was then the desktop IP, while the laptop IP, which was then 192.168.1.5, was not. And before the mail from Santanu Sinha I thought that was the case, and now I don't know any more why it was happening. Anyway, thanks to both of you. -- das ddts.randomink.org _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss
