The Joy of Penguins : Linux System Administration

Linux System Administration

NFS - Network File System

Setting up an NFS server

If you have a large installation, you may find that you have a bunch of computers all on the same local network that require access to your server.
There are a few ways of simplifying references to large numbers of machines.

First, you can give access to a range of machines at once by specifying a network and a netmask.
For example, if you wanted to allow access to all the machines with IP addresses between 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.0.255 then you could have the entries:

  
		/usr/local 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(ro)
		/home      192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw)

		/home      *.transy.edu(rw)

You can also use partial IP's. This represents all IP's that look like 192.168.*.* :

		/home      192.168.(rw)

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