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Setting Up An NFS Server And Client On Debian Lenny This guide explains how to set up an NFS server and an NFS client on Debian Lenny. NFS stands for Network File System; through NFS, a client can access (read, write) a remote share on an NFS server as if it was on the local hard disk.
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I just recently did this process on my home server. It was just as straight forward and easy as you described it here. Compared to getting the origional samba share up, it was down right breezy!
It might be interested to also mention that Windows has native clients for both nfs and cups, so the average home server can avoid samba altogether. That too would make for a nice tutorial.
Finally, sometimes there are issues with getting nfs mount at boot time, if the mount command is handled before a wireless module is brought up. This and various fixes would be appreciated.
This is the same tutorial as the NFS tutorial for Debian Etch. Something must have changed between Etch and Lenny because it does not work.
If at boot, DNS is not running when the NFS mount is supposed to happen, then the NfS daemon won't find the NFS server and the mount will fail.
A reasonable work-around is to put the IP# of the NFS server in /etc/hosts.
Windows also has a hosts file probably in C:\Windows\hosts (check this)
The windows path for hosts file is
"C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts"
This is a very nice article, but the connection speed is too slow 2,26MB/s. If you want to speed up, you should use the async option in exports and in fstab, after the speed is 48MB/s!
Good job! Bye