On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:24:31PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > 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?). > you mean from one machine to the next, the users with the same name must have the same UID? I think you're right, or you can allow write access to others, which is what I do on my home lan. probably not the greatest idea, but it is just music and photos. A
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