How To Share folders with NFS

[Polaris96]

My very favourite thing of all about debian is that "end of project" exhalation, when you're hind-brain actually clicks and goes,
"wow. that's it. I mean for real ... unless I cahnge something major, this is just gonna work .. forever"

It's bloody gratifying and I wish life worked as cleanly lol.

[ComputerBob]

My very favourite thing of all about debian is that "end of project" exhalation, when you're hind-brain actually clicks and goes,
"wow. that's it. I mean for real ... unless I cahnge something major, this is just gonna work .. forever"

It's bloody gratifying and I wish life worked as cleanly lol.

That's exactly how I'm feeling.

[nikobit]

Thanks for descriptive topic. Few questions remain though. How to make mounted NFS visible in GNOME-Nautilus File Manager?

[thewanderer]

@nikobit: It already is visible under the normal path, so if you browse to /your/mountpoint you will see the filesystem that is mounted there, as with all other mounts.
How to make it appear automagically, I am not sure. I am a KDE user and my only solution so far has been to add the directory as a "global bookmark" to all file selector dialogs and widgets, so that it is just a custom location showing up below Home and Root.
Under GNOME you could probably look for such option. It will only possibly have a per-user effect, though I am sure it is possible to alter the global settings, too.

I think KDE3.5 used to display all mounted filesystems somewhere. Where to find them in GNOME or KDE4 now, I will probably never know. So just use these directories as if they were normal, local directories - that's what the UNIX filesystem abstraction is for.

[nikobit]

Thanks for fast reply. I used to simplify connection process by Opera Unite service to bring everything to GUI. Much easier than shell for a novice.

[Polaris96]

Glad somebody could help irt the GNOME issue. I'll confess to all I don't have good knowledge with GUI apps. I grew up in CLI and figure a terminal window will work out most any problem and you can get one from any GUI.

I've had experience using KDE, XFCE, LXDE, and E17. None of these ever had issues seeing the NFS shares.

[BillD73]

quick question about the /etc/host and /etc/hosts.allow

since my local network has multiple systems and multiple users, a few such as RPi's just take whatever IP DHCP from the router throws them, is there a way to specify the local network as 192.168.0/24 and wildcard the hostname?

the same with mountd in hosts.allow?

Thank you for the write up!

[Hallvor]

Assign static IPs to these devices?