[NTLUG:Discuss] "sharing" NFS files...

[Jonathan Miller]

On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Kathleen Weaver wrote:

> I've got a CDRom mounted on a server.  I have it set up in /etc/exports as
> /cdrom 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 (ro,insecure) and set permissions to 555.
> 
> I can't seem to mount it.  THANKS

That's because you can't possibly have machine with that address. I assume
you want this to be globally accessable. (?) If so, we can take a look at
`man exports`, and way down at line 250-something there's the exmamples.
Taking a look at line 5 and it's explenation tells us:

EXAMPLE
<snip>
       /pub            (ro,insecure,all_squash)
<snip>
Line 5 exports the public FTP directory to every host in the world,
executing all requests under the nobody account.  The insecure option in
this entry also allows clients with NFS implementations that don't use a
reserved port for NFS. 

Neat-o, huh?

-- Jonathan

(No matter what anyone else tells you the man pages are your friends! I
promise!)