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RE: how to mount remote file system?



On 05-Feb-99 Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> I have a linux box serving as a web server.  This computer has no
> monitor on it and is stashed in a remote corner.  I administor it via
> telnet.  (Maybe the wrong way...).  I'd like to mount part of it's
> filesystem on the linux box at my desk, so I can update the web pages.
>  How can I do this?  I have not played with network file systems under
> linux yet (except for samba, and there only being able to go from the
> windows machine to my linux box ... which is how I have to download
> stuff from the internet as I can't yet get the linux box to see the
> internet through the corporate firewall and network).
> 

Install and read the docs on NFS.  There is also a book from O'Reilly and
Associates on the subject.

You will also need to compile a kernel w/ NFS support (module or internal).


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