On 13/10/06, cl@isbd.net cl@isbd.net wrote:
What's the simplest way to network disk drives between Linux boxes?
I just want to make the drives on my 'old' Linux server visible to the new Linux server so I can copy/merge configuration files, copy /home directories etc.
Install nfs-user-server on the old server. Edit the file on old server /etc/exports (on a debian system, anyway). e.g. add the line /home (rw,insecure,no_all_squash,no_root_squash) Restart nfs-user-server. On new server, make a mount directory. eg mkdir /mnt/oldserver mount the export onto this directory mount oldservername:/home /mnt/oldserver -t nfs
Hints: I think you might need the old server ip address and name in your new server hosts file. You might also need to install portmap.
Hope this helps, but I've made two naive idiot posts to geeky lists recently and I'm probably barking up the wrong tree for the third time :-))
Jenny