Exporting File Systems With Yast - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual

37.4 Exporting File Systems with YaST

With YaST, turn a host in your network into an NFS server—a server that exports di-
rectories and files to all hosts granted access to it. This could be done to provide appli-
cations to all members of a group without installing them locally on each and every
host. To install such a server, start YaST and select Network Services > NFS Server. A
dialog like that in Figure 37.2, "NFS Server Configuration Tool" (page 707) opens.
Figure 37.2 NFS Server Configuration Tool
Next, activate Start NFS Server and enter the NFSv4 domain name.
Click Enable GSS Security if you need secure access to the server. A prerequisite for
this is to have Kerberos installed in your domain and both the server and the clients are
kerberized. Click Next.
In the upper text field, enter the directories to export. Below, enter the hosts that should
have access to them. This dialog is shown in Figure 37.3, "Configuring an NFS Server
with YaST" (page 708). The figure shows the scenario where NFSv4 is enabled in the
previous dialog. Bindmount Targets is shown in the right pane. For more details,
refer to the help shown on the left pane. In the lower half of the dialog, there are four
options that can be set for each host: single host, netgroups, wildcards,
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