SAMS Teach Yourself Red Hat® Fedora™ 4 Linux® All in One

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to configure a Fedora Core 4 computer to act as a file server for other Linux or Unix computers, as well as for Windows computers on your network.

To enable your Network File System (NFS) service, you learned to do the following:

• Install the NFS Configuration tool to easily add and configure NFS exports

• Add NFS shares, either by using the NFS Server Configuration tool or by editing the /etc/exports file directly

• Configure the NFS server to start automatically each time you boot Linux, either by using the Service Configuration tool or the chkconfig command

• Edit your packet filtering configuration to allow NFS network traffic

To enable your Windows file sharing service, you learned to do the following:

• Install ...