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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.clark.net!rwatson From: rwatson@clark.net (Robert Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NFS server? Date: 24 Jun 1995 15:01:12 GMT Organization: The Star-Lit BBS, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3sh9bo$oa5@clarknet.clark.net> References: <Pine.ULT.3.91.950623160405.20388B-100000@silver.ucs.indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: clark.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] jack david ross (jdross@indiana.edu) wrote: : could someone email me a nfs server address that I could test mounting on : my machine. and a username and password if needed! : also the command I would need to type to mount it! Well, you can mount wuarchive.. mount wuarchive.wustl.edu:/wuarchive /mnt I advise you set some options on it though.. Such as a readonly mount, and a noexec mount (so programs can't be executed on the nfs-mounted drive.. nothing to stop people from copying them locally, but..). If you're connecting to another 4.4 system over the net, I advise doing a TCP mount isntead of a UDP one -- in fact, I advise you man mount_nfs for a pretty thorough list of parameters ;). If you're mounting from a 4.4lite system (eg., another FreeBSD 2.0R+ system) you can use NQNFS (Not Quite NFS) to gain efficiency, security, and reliability. Oh, and the epic catch -- if you're mounting from a high speed workstation on some ethernet cards, you'll need to set the max blocksize to 2k instead of the default 8k, but again, check the man page for mount_nfs, and check the faq. -- Robert Watson rwatson@sidwell.edu http://www.sidwell.edu/~rwatson/ The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.