[Tfug] remote filesystems

[Harry McGregor]

Hi,

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 14:25 -0700, Ammon Lauritzen wrote:
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> Here's the problem. I have two servers separated by much internet and
> several braindead firewalls. One of them actively uses a whole mess of
> files. The other server occasionally needs to be able to read/write any
> one of these files at random.
> 
> I have set up OpenVPN to make available an happy tunnel between the two
> machines. It works wonderfully.

Sounds good.

> I then went through the minor hassle of starting up NFS services on the
> file server and the much more major hassle (for reasons of stupid typos
> in /etc/hosts.allow) of setting up the client to attempt to mount said
> remote directory.
> 
> Nothing doing. The kernel doesn't contain NFS filesystem support. Or
> Samba support for that matter.

What about using the older userland NFS support?

On Debian the package is nfs-user-server

> Now here's where it gets good.
> 
> I _can't_ just recompile the kernel or toss in the new modules. The
> client machine is running off of a VPS system and I thus have control
> over everything except the kernel itself.
> 
> So... while I wait to see if I can convince them to give me the modules
> I need, I present you all with the puzzle.
> 
> What else could I possibly try?

			Harry

> Ammon
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Harry McGregor <micros at osef.org>
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