Networking Under Linux

Hi, i am new to Linux, but have been running windows machines for years
now. I have two boxes running dual boot systems, Windows XP/Suse Linux 9.1
Both boxes are connected via ethernet to a Zyxel 643 router complete with
ADSL modem.

Both can see the ,net and have no trouble browsing,emailing etc.
I have setup Samba so the windows shares are available, but how do I go
about setting up NFS/NIS to share part of my system to the other machine
i.e. file sharing. I want to use this directory as a network archive.

Regards

Bob Moore

On Wed, 19 May 2004 22:31:21 +0100, bobmoore wrote:

> Hi, i am new to Linux, but have been running windows machines for years
> now. I have two boxes running dual boot systems, Windows XP/Suse Linux 9.1
> Both boxes are connected via ethernet to a Zyxel 643 router complete with
> ADSL modem.
>
> Both can see the ,net and have no trouble browsing,emailing etc.
> I have setup Samba so the windows shares are available, but how do I go
> about setting up NFS/NIS to share part of my system to the other machine
> i.e. file sharing. I want to use this directory as a network archive.
>

The following is probably a good place to start for nfs...

http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/

For NIS, try :
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/
or
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...twork-nis.html

The second link is geared towards FreeBSD, but is still general enough
that it's been a great help for me.


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- Matt -

bobmoore wrote:

> Hi, i am new to Linux, but have been running windows machines for years
> now. I have two boxes running dual boot systems, Windows XP/Suse Linux 9.1
> Both boxes are connected via ethernet to a Zyxel 643 router complete with
> ADSL modem.
>
> Both can see the ,net and have no trouble browsing,emailing etc.
> I have setup Samba so the windows shares are available, but how do I go
> about setting up NFS/NIS to share part of my system to the other machine
> i.e. file sharing. I want to use this directory as a network archive.
>
> Regards
>
> Bob Moore
Hi Bob,

Samba is two parts, the client to access windows shares and a server to make
windows shares available to other machines. You can acccess nfs shares also
from a windows machine, but you have to install a nfs client on the windows
boxes. So better stick to the samba server.
Do you really need nis?

Alex