Scott Harrison
Last updated: 10/26/2000
This file describes issues associated with accessing a LON-CAPA machine through NFS. This allows UNIX-type machines (as well as other machines) to mount portions of the LON-CAPA machine as file space (useful for an instructor).
NFS & LON-CAPA INCOMPLETE HOWTO (Scott Harrison, September 16, 2000) taken in part from http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/NFS-Tips/NFS-Tips.html Ok, this was my first time playing around with NFS (well I did 4 years ago back when I had "free time" but that's a whole 'nother story). So please correct me if I say something stupid. all that needs to be done to implement nfs appears to be * install portmap and nfs-utils RPMs nfs-utils-0.1.9.1-1 portmap-4.0-19 * configure /etc/exports /home/profname example.lite.msu.edu(rw,all_squash,anonuid=501,anongid=501) (if you don't reboot the system, then of course /etc/rc.d/init.d portmap stop /etc/rc.d/init.d nfs stop /etc/rc.d/init.d portmap start /etc/rc.d/init.d nfs start ) The real question is: how do we plan to configure /etc/exports options 1. NIS/YP???????????? 2. have a web interface that enables connection from a given machine exportfs -o async,rw,all_squash,anonuid=CORRECTUID4PROF,anongid=CORRECTGID4PROF zaphod.lite.msu.edu:/home/PROFNAME ?????????? should this exportfs "time-out" after an hour, or after the instructor logs out, or is unmounted? Or are all my questions crazy? 3. telnet to a port where password is typed in to enable NFS export