In an attempt to unify my desktop data on my newly acquired laptop I decided to try out sharing my /home directory from my desktop as a NFS and then mounting it as /home on my laptop. Originally this idea was flawed because the laptop was not connecting to the wireless router on boot (remedied by my previous post).
Now that this wasn’t an issue, the idea didn’t seem half, sans the fact that I
was bound to my home network. To get started, I added the appropriate packages to my client:
and on my server:
sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-serverNext I went ahead and modified /etc/exports on the server to share out /home:
/home *(rw,sync,no_root_squash)and started nfs-kernel-server:
sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server startOnce the server was ready to go, I added an entry in /etc/fstab on my laptop
(client):
I rebooted my laptop, logged in and was welcomed by a nobbled version of my
desktop machine in the other room. Limping along by the fact that I didn’t have the same set of packages install on the laptop, which was remedied by running the package installation portion of my SASSY (see previous post) script. All in all
the system seemed to have a smidge of lag when opening files across the network and such, but overall it was very usable.
