I have an iBook (you might remember the previous "Help me buy a Mac" thread) connected to my otherwise-Ethernet network over 802.11g. I also have a Linux box with NFS installed and configured, and a ...

I wasn't really expecting it to just work out of the box, but NFS is surprisingly viable.

SMB (Server Message Block) is a network protocol that is used to share access to files, printers and serial ports between a Linux or Unix computer and a Windows computer. NFS (Network File System) is ...

Here's the situation.<BR><BR>I have a linux box with a static IP address, connected in two seperate network configurations:<BR><BR>1. Connected to a gateway, with several other computers on a switch.

If you have two or more machines, you may wish to share disk space or devices, such as a CD drive, between machines. For this there is network filesystem (NFS), the easiest way of sharing files and ...

I hadn’t seen a stale NFS file handle for more than a decade, so this mount error surprised me. fermion:/ # mount boson:/cdrom/studio_9_solsparc /studio_9_solsparc ...

Many companies are using open source Linux servers for DNS/DHCP servers and Web servers, but it is also possible to use Linux or UNIX as a file server. The Network File System has been around for many ...