nfs questions!!!

[Frank Cox]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:30:53 -0700
bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 1) how do i allow the nfs on the client to always be active. currently i've
> had to do a "mount 192...:/foo/data /data" to be able to share the drive.. i
> know there's a way to setup the system to have the nfs always setup on
> boot-up.

Edit /etc/fstab and include the fileserver in that.

Example:

fileserver:/nas/NASDisk-00002/files  /mnt/fileserver  nfs  defaults     0 0

> 2) i add a file to the shared dir from the nfs system. i try to edit it from
> a client, and i can't. as a client, i can copy the file to my local dir, and
> edit it.. but as a client, i can't overwrite the file on the nfs share.

The /etc/exports file on your fileserver needs to have (rw) specified instead
of (ro).

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