Mohamed Haidar wrote: > Mohamed Haidar wrote: >> I would like to know how to go about configing NFS with dynamic IP. I >> have three computers at home and all are connected to the a switch witch >> in turn is connected to the internet provider. The problem is that my >> ISP assigns Ip's dynamically. All my computers have linux on them. Thx >> in advance for any help you guys. > > What i would like to do is to have a network at home with shared > folders. I asked around and people suggested NFS. I have three linux > computers with openSuse 10.2 on them. My isp hands me three separate > IP's witch are dynamic. All the computers is connected to the same > switch. > Now I can't say I have read all the man and info pages but i have read > a bunch of them including some online howtos. The general idea seams to > be that the IP's should be static witch is a luxury i dont have. I could > go with the hostname method mentioned above but I need some explination > and some guidelines. I'm not using yast for this, im managing the > conf-files manualy. I dont thing that getting the NFS service going is a > problem, either server or client, its just that I don't know how to > handle the dynamic IP issue. > Very great full over the advise guys.
Make sure you're not sharing your computers to the internet. You can get a dynamic DNS service, which will follow your IP address. You can also run a script in Linux, whenever the IP changes. There is provision for this in the DHCP client. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]