Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION Installation Manual page 78

5 Select Add Host and enter the hostnames of the machines to which to export the
6 Click Finish. The NFS server holding the SUSE Linux Enterprise installation
If you prefer manually exporting the installation sources via NFS instead of using the
YaST NFS Server module, proceed as follows:
1 Log in as root.
2 Open the file /etc/exports and enter the following line:
3 To add the NFS service to the list of servers started during system boot, execute
4 Start the NFS server with rcnfsserver start. If you need to change the
Announcing the NFS server via OpenSLP makes its address known to all clients in
your network.
1 Log in as root.
2 Enter the directory /etc/slp.reg.d/.
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installation data. Instead of specifying hostnames here, you could also use wild
cards, ranges of network addresses, or just the domain name of your network.
Enter the appropriate export options or leave the default, which works fine in
most setups. For more information about the syntax used in exporting NFS shares,
read the exports man page.
sources is automatically started and integrated into the boot process.
/productversion *(ro,root_squash,sync)
This exports the directory /productversion to any host that is part of this
network or to any host that can connect to this server. To limit the access to this
server, use netmasks or domain names instead of the general wild card *. Refer
to the export man page for details. Save and exit this configuration file.
the following commands:
insserv /etc/init.d/nfsserver
insserv /etc/init.d/portmap
configuration of your NFS server later, modify the configuration file and restart
the NFS daemon with rcnfsserver restart.