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        !             3: <TITLE>LON-CAPA NFS Connectivity Documentation</TITLE>
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        !             6: <H1>LON-CAPA NFS Connectivity Documentation</H1>
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        !             8: Scott Harrison
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        !            11: Last updated: 10/26/2000
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        !            13: <H3>Introduction</H3>
        !            14: <P>
        !            15: This file describes issues associated with accessing a LON-CAPA machine through
        !            16: NFS.  This allows UNIX-type machines (as well as other machines) to mount portions
        !            17: of the LON-CAPA machine as file space (useful for an instructor).
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        !            20: <H3>Latest HOWTO</H3>
        !            21: <PRE>
        !            22: NFS & LON-CAPA INCOMPLETE HOWTO
        !            23: (Scott Harrison, September 16, 2000)
        !            24: taken in part from
        !            25: http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/NFS-Tips/NFS-Tips.html
        !            26: 
        !            27: Ok, this was my first time playing around with NFS
        !            28: (well I did 4 years ago back when I had "free time"
        !            29: but that's a whole 'nother story).  So please correct
        !            30: me if I say something stupid.
        !            31: 
        !            32: all that needs to be done to implement
        !            33: nfs appears to be
        !            34: 
        !            35: * install portmap and nfs-utils RPMs
        !            36: nfs-utils-0.1.9.1-1
        !            37: portmap-4.0-19
        !            38: 
        !            39: * configure /etc/exports
        !            40: /home/profname       example.lite.msu.edu(rw,all_squash,anonuid=501,anongid=501)
        !            41: (if you don't reboot the system, then of course
        !            42: /etc/rc.d/init.d portmap stop
        !            43: /etc/rc.d/init.d nfs stop
        !            44: /etc/rc.d/init.d portmap start
        !            45: /etc/rc.d/init.d nfs start
        !            46: )
        !            47: 
        !            48: The real question is:
        !            49: 
        !            50: how do we plan to configure /etc/exports
        !            51: 
        !            52: options
        !            53: 1. NIS/YP????????????
        !            54: 2. have a web interface that enables connection from a given machine
        !            55:        exportfs -o
        !            56: async,rw,all_squash,anonuid=CORRECTUID4PROF,anongid=CORRECTGID4PROF
        !            57: zaphod.lite.msu.edu:/home/PROFNAME
        !            58: ??????????
        !            59: 
        !            60: should this exportfs "time-out" after an hour, or after
        !            61: the instructor logs out, or is unmounted?
        !            62: 
        !            63: Or are all my questions crazy?
        !            64: 
        !            65: 3. telnet to a port where password is typed in to enable NFS export
        !            66: 
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        !            68: </PRE>
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