Re: [newbie] Mounting Drives on other machines?!

2001-08-22 Thread Mohammed Arafa
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]

RE: [newbie] Mounting Drives on other machines?!

2001-08-22 Thread Michael D. Viron
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

Re: [newbie] Mounting Drives on other machines?!

2001-08-22 Thread h3rb
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

RE: [newbie] Mounting Drives on other machines?!

2001-08-21 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
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