Re: [newbie] Mounting Drives on other machines?!
ever heard of nfs? network file system . i believe it comes standard with the mandrake cd.. u mount the remote pc's hd as those it was on your local pc - Original Message - From: h3rb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 5:56 AM Subject: [newbie] Mounting Drives on other machines?! Is there a way to mount a drive on another linux machine on my network? I have 4 other linux servers on my internal network. And having to ssh or ftp files back and forth is becoming an annoyance. Is there a way I can mount the drives from the other machines? Kinda like you would mount a network drive in windows? If it can be done..can someone point me in the right direction. h3rb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mounting Drives on other machines?!
Start the NFS service after restarting Linuxconf's service handler... Then service nfs restart. In order to run NFS, you must also run portmap. Before you try service nfs restart, check on the status of portmap '/etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap status'. You can, of course, also find the NFS howto on http://www.linuxdoc.org . Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting Drives on other machines?!
Thx..already got it working. =) Life is much easier now. h3rb On Wednesday 22 August 2001 09:36 am, Michael D. Viron wrote: Start the NFS service after restarting Linuxconf's service handler... Then service nfs restart. In order to run NFS, you must also run portmap. Before you try service nfs restart, check on the status of portmap '/etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap status'. You can, of course, also find the NFS howto on http://www.linuxdoc.org . Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mounting Drives on other machines?!
If you are doing this between Linux machines, then NFS is the way to go. You can mount the other machine's drives (or directories) either at boot, in a script or manually. Go into Linuxconf's NFS setup and EXPORT the diretory structure you want to share. Start the NFS service after restarting Linuxconf's service handler... Then service nfs restart. Now on the other machine start NFS as well and you can them mount the remote computer's drive/directories... I.E. mount linuxbox:/ /mnt/linuxbox This mounts the machine called Linuxbox's root directory at the /mnt/linuxbox mount point... mount linuxbox:/usr /mnt/linuxbox/usr Mounts the Linuxbox's usr directory (since it's on another drive) to preserve consistent mounts... Etc. I ended making a little script to do all the work for me, so I can mount and unmount the volumes I need without effort, nor relying on the system to do this... Oh yes, you can also AUTOMOUNT NFS partitions as well... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of h3rb Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 11:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mounting Drives on other machines?! Is there a way to mount a drive on another linux machine on my network? I have 4 other linux servers on my internal network. And having to ssh or ftp files back and forth is becoming an annoyance. Is there a way I can mount the drives from the other machines? Kinda like you would mount a network drive in windows? If it can be done..can someone point me in the right direction. h3rb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
