[GLLUG] mounting directories on a remote system

[Andy Lee]

>>> Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net> 04/15/05 04:16PM >>>
Yes, but Andy said "each box".  That makes me think there N machines 
where he will need to configure and run nfsd.  How difficult this is 
depends on how large N is.  But if all the servers need to export the 
same local directory to the same set of machines with the same access 
permissions, you should be able to just write one /etc/exports file and

push that to all the servers.

The immediate need is to allow the DBA to transfer files from one set
up server to the other 3 he now needs to configure. We do have a mixed
environment, so setting up a Samba server on each Linux server I deploy
could make life easier for more than the current issue. So far I've been
using smbmount from Linux -> Windows, which worked out of the box, but
sometimes it would be more convenient to go the other direction. It
sounds like Samba is the best solution, so that's what I'll set up.