Re: Lilo and Red Hat 6.1

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 08:14:42PM -0000, Ian Wright wrote:
> Hi,

	Hi Ian,

> At the moment I can ping my other two machines from the new linux box and I
> can smbmount the windows box onto it but I can't see this new linux box from
> either of my other machines. So, for a start, where have I gone wrong here?

	It looks as if you've got some configuration problem. Maybe you
have ipchains or something so that packets coming from another hosts
might be rejected. 

> Second problem is that I don't know how to 'mount'? one linux machine onto
> the other. I found one command in one of the HOWTOs and tried it but it came
> back saying something about not being able to start RPC or something.  Can
> anyone offer a 'Janet and John' description of how to actually transfer
> files across a linux network or otherwise get the machines talking to one
> another. At the moment I think I would have more success getting an elephant
> to talk to a fish!! ;o(

	Short answer: NFS is what you want. That rpc message you get is
due to NFS behaviour. However, I'm short of time (and short of knowledge
in this area) so as to give a better explanation. May I suggest the NFS
Howto? I can't remember if it was cryptic or not, but I know that NFS is
a big subject.

	Maybe somebody else can help...

	Best luck!
	José

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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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