From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Apr 20 08:56:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA20055 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 08:56:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from muswell.demon.co.uk (muswell.demon.co.uk [158.152.10.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA19839 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 15:55:43 GMT (envelope-from ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk) Received: (from ruth@localhost) by muswell.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.6.12) id QAA00224; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:33:55 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:33:55 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199804201533.QAA00224@muswell.demon.co.uk> From: ruth moulton MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Haavard Vaagstoel Cc: ruth moulton , newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS In-Reply-To: References: <199804201149.MAA01077@muswell.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Cc: ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk Disposition-notification-to: ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Haavard the first reference I gave you (the UNIX System Administrators Handbook, 2nd Edition, by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, Trant R. Hein, published Prentice Hall) includes explicit instructions for BSD unix, which are usually good enough for FreeBSD, at least the commands will most likely be the same, which means you can look up the man pages (man(1) command) to find any differences. Personally my NFS knowledge is rusty, so I'd only look in the book to find you some answers! ruth > On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, ruth moulton wrote: > > > You could check out Sun's web site too, no idea if they have > > some good pointers or not... > > Maybe they have, and the other sources you mention are probably great for > general NFS documentation. But I'm afraid I might need something a little > more specific to FreeBSD. > > Could someone on the list tell me a few basic things, perhaps? For > instance, what would be the correct command to mount the /usr directory on > one host under /foo on the other host? Do I need to define what parts of > my system that it shall be possible to NFS mount? If so, where? > -- > Haavard Vaagstoel > -- ================================================ Ruth Moulton ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk Consultant 65 Tetherdown, London N.10 1NH, UK Tel:+44 181 883 5823 -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message