Preferred networking - samba or nfs

[Peter Garrett]

On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 11:54 +0100, piltdown wrote:
> Bit of a basic question here.
> 
> Looking at the Ubuntu Starter guide: http://ubuntuguide.org/ I see their
> is no reference to setting-up nfs, only Samba. 
> 
> Is Samba the preferred networking method, even on a Linux only network? Or
> is it the case that nfs is so simple to configure that no explanation is
> necessary?

I found this guide useful for setting up NFS:

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/NFS-HOWTO/

One "gotcha" to look out for: - in the file /etc/default/portmap

# By default, listen only on the loopback interface
 ARGS="-i 127.0.0.1"

This will result in portmap listening only on the loopback interface,
which will stop you in your tracks until you change it to

# By default, listen only on the loopback interface
# ARGS="-i 127.0.0.1"

Why this default is set as it is, I really don't know. I spent a lot of
useless time configuring NFS until I found that file and commented the
second line as above.