Re: Help with setting up home network
On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 10:56 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:47:54AM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote:
> > Can anyone point me to some docs that would help me configure my home
> > network? I have one machine that is setup as a file/web/mail server and
> > then I want to access it from my laptops and desktops. These machines
> > are a mixture of XP and Debian machines. Currently I am most intrested
> > in getting access to the server from the debian machines first. I have
> > tried using Samba and NFS, but I am having difficulty getting write
> > access to the drives. I can get read access to them and I can copy
> > stuff from the drives, but I can not get write access to the drives from
> > the laptops etc.
> >
>
> NFS should be dead simple to get working. Have you allowed write
> access in /etc/exports on the server?
>
> what are the perms on the network shares on the server?
> what are the perms on the mount points on the client?
> how are you mounting the shares on the client?
>
> these four things need to match up to make it work.
>
> A
IIRC, the users/UID's need to match on NFS as well, unless there is some
way to surmount it (likely lowering the security level as a
consequence?).
Kenward
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