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With good luck and a following wind you should see +the address of your server PC appear with a little "expand me" arrow +beside it. + +When you click on that you should see the name of your server's shared +directory/directories. Highlight the one you are setting up and go +through the buttons at the bottom of the screen. + +Choose a mount point - for simplicity I let it use the default offered +of /mnt/Videos + +Mount it. + +Done. You will be asked if you want to save the changes to /etc/fstab. +Say yes and the next time you boot it will try to mount this share +again. If your server PC is always up first then that should be OK. If +you're like me then there is no guarantee it will be up. You might +prefer to be able to mount it yourself when you want it. That is what +the Options button will help you sort out. + +If all of that has worked then you can restore the personal firewall +on each PC. First on the server, uncheck the Everything option and +make sure the NFS server box is ticked. On the client PC you should be +able just to restore whatever settings you had before. + +If you got this far with no show-stopping errors then life will have +just got a little bit brighter. + +If something went wrong then shout. I'll check back on Friday evening, +but you may find the answer before that. + +good luck, + +Richard + +On 08/03/2012, WALKER RICHARD <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">richard.j.walker at ntlworld.com</A>> wrote: +><i> Now back to the NFS problem. I have just gone through the procedure +</I>><i> described in the draknfs.html guide you referenced in your original +</I>><i> post elsewhere. I am using a Mageia 1 machine as the provider of the +</I>><i> share (the server) and a Mandriva 2010.0 machine as the client. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The first thing is to make sure the personal firewall does not get in +</I>><i> the way so I disabled it on both PCs. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Next, on the server PC I selected the "Share drives and directories +</I>><i> using NFS" option on "Network Sharing" in MCC. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> As I hadn't done this before it prompted me to install some missing +</I>><i> NFS packages and then presented me with the screen where I could "Add" +</I>><i> a share. The resulting popup let me browse to a folder for sharing (I +</I>><i> chose ~/Videos) . +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The next box on the form asks for information about which hosts I want +</I>><i> to share with. There are a few options, but the simplest is to use the +</I>><i> proffered 192.168.0.0/8 choice. You can maybe guess that the "/8" +</I>><i> tells how many zero bits are in our net mask and as the last octet is +</I>><i> zero then all bits are zero, so it is 8. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The next box gives User ID Mapping options. I left that at "No user +</I>><i> UID mapping". I have the same UID on all of my PCs so that works fine +</I>><i> for me. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The only other thing I changed was in the "Advanced" section (which +</I>><i> expands) where I changed the "Read-Only share" from "yes" to "no". +</I>><i> +</I>><i> OK that and your entry appears in the left hand window. The actual +</I>><i> configuration you have just completed can be found in /etc/exports - +</I>><i> take a look if you like. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> On 08/03/2012, WALKER RICHARD <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">richard.j.walker at ntlworld.com</A>> wrote: +</I>>><i> Right then, I don't think we need to know any more. From here it looks +</I>>><i> like your LAN should be fully functioning. Before we try setting up +</I>>><i> your NFS shares it might be worthwhile to take a few moments clearing +</I>>><i> up a couple of points about networking - things I learned the hard +</I>>><i> way, and now so are you :-). +</I>>><i> +</I>>>><i> I do not think I am able to assign fixed IP addresses. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Well, you can. Don't confuse fixed addresses with static addresses you +</I>>><i> might get from an ISP. If you had chosen manual setup in MCC when +</I>>><i> configuring your ethernet card you could have typed in a fixed address +</I>>><i> of your own choosing. Of course you need to know what you are doing so +</I>>><i> that you can avoid addresses which your router's DHCP could, in +</I>>><i> theory, hand out to some later connected device. Then you would have +</I>>><i> two hosts with the same address and all sorts of lost connection +</I>>><i> issues! +</I>>><i> +</I>>>><i> The computers and router are connected via ethernet cables, within a +</I>>>><i> house so I assume that is considered a "same" network. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> In fact it is possible to have multiple networks operating on one +</I>>><i> common set of installed hardware, but this is seldom considered +</I>>><i> necessary in a domestic setting. It is the addresses and network mask +</I>>><i> which "define" separate logical networks within a single physical +</I>>><i> network. +</I>>><i> A quick example; on my 192.168.0.? network I have two PCs and a +</I>>><i> firewall. My router, although wired in to the same network, has an +</I>>><i> address of 192.168.1.1. That address does not exist in my LAN. If I +</I>>><i> want to connect to my router I have to reconfigure a PC to have an +</I>>><i> address in my router's network - 192.168.1.99 would do. It is the 1 in +</I>>><i> the third octet which makes it a separate network. My LAN mask is 255 +</I>>><i> for that octet, which says all of the bits in this octet must match +</I>>><i> for two addresses to be considered in the same net. (Same goes for the +</I>>><i> 192 and the 168). Only the fourth octet (mask value 0) can be any 8 +</I>>><i> bit number. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> On 08/03/2012, Florian Hubold <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">doktor5000 at arcor.de</A>> wrote: +</I>>>><i> Am 07.03.2012 14:04, schrieb Cazacu Bogdan: +</I>>>>><i> Wont it be simpler to post the output from ifconfig here? And +</I>>>>><i> aventually +</I>>>>><i> a +</I>>>>><i> traceroute output? :) +</I>>>>><i> Honestly i've tried to understand what is the problem (i'm [still] +</I>>>>><i> guessing it's dhcp related by the looks of the problem and replies) but +</I>>>>><i> i'm not sure i got it... +</I>>>><i> Yep, that would be rather helpful as a beginning. +</I>>>><i> Unrelated: Top-posting is ugly ;) +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Some other notes, from what i read in the thread: most routers +</I>>>><i> also allow for what is often referenced as "static DHCP" which means +</I>>>><i> statically assigning specific IP adresses via DHCP, always to the +</I>>>><i> same machine based on it's MAC adress, which is essentially +</I>>>><i> the same as manually-configured static adresses, but +</I>>>><i> with a lot less hassle and no manual setup required. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Also one should not mangle the external IP adress (which is usually +</I>>>><i> assigned by the ISP, under which your router is visible to the internet, +</I>>>><i> and normally can't be changed manually) with your internal adresses. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> That other part are the IP adresses which you use on your local network, +</I>>>><i> which you can setup any way you want, and that has nothing to do with +</I>>>><i> your ISP. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Another thing: When editing /etc/hosts, i wouldn't remove the loopback +</I>>>><i> entries, but only add additional entries if you really need to. +</I>>>><i> This is also another drawback if you manually assign IP adresses +</I>>>><i> and can be easily avoided by properly configuring/using DHCP. +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> -----Original Message----- +</I>>>>><i> From: <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">mageia-discuss-bounces at mageia.org</A> +</I>>>>><i> [mailto:<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">mageia-discuss-bounces at mageia.org</A>] On Behalf Of Florian Hubold +</I>>>>><i> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 12:54 PM +</I>>>>><i> To: <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">mageia-discuss at mageia.org</A> +</I>>>>><i> Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] home network using broadband router +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> Guys, remotely diagnosing networking problems without having all the +</I>>>>><i> relevant information, like the exact IP adresses (if they are from any +</I>>>>><i> private range of either class A, B or C networks, they're not even +</I>>>>><i> routable over the internet, so don't need to be anonymized) the exact +</I>>>>><i> internal routers adress, netmasks and maybe routing tables will just be +</I>>>>><i> a +</I>>>>><i> wild guessing back and forth. +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> Also firewalls should be switched off at both client computers to rule +</I>>>>><i> those out. +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> +</I></PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="006655.html">[Mageia-discuss] home network using broadband router +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="006657.html">[Mageia-discuss] home network using broadband router +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#6656">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#6656">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#6656">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#6656">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |