GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide
by Graham Williams |
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Setting Up Multiple Sound Cards |
Suppose Alpine (39.41) is the host of the home directories that are exported to Cultus (39.40). On Alpine install nfs-server. This will install nfs-kernel-server and nfs-common. The server provides the ability to export a local disk to other computers whilst the client is provided in nfs-common and allows our computer to access (i.e., to mount) the disk storage exported from other computers.
alpine$ wajig install nfs-server |
On Alpine (39.41) we then identify the folder that we wish to exort, and to whom to export. We edit /etc/exports to add lines like the following:
/home cultus(rw) |
Then restart the daemon:
alpine$ wajig restart nfs-kernel-server |
On Velox (39.47), an earlier install, nfs-user-server was used rather than the usual nfs-kernel-server because the latter gave the following error when starting the daemons:
nfssvc: Function not implemented |
Errors will also be reported if you have not loaded the nfsd module into the kernel. Be sure to add the following to /etc/modules if you get errors:
nfs nfsd |
Now on Cultus (39.40) add the following line to /etc/fstab:
alpine:/home /home nfs defaults 0 0 |
Then on Cultus (39.40) you can:
cultus$ mount /home |
You should also maintain common passwd, shadow, group and gshadow files between the various hosts. See Section 66.1 below for details.