NFS client on Ubuntu?

[Dolf Andringa]

Hey Jerry,

Install the package nfs-common. That is an nfs client. You could then 
use the mount command to mount the nfs shares from your SuSE server.

in a terminal type:

apt-get install nfs-common
mount -t nfs hostnameorip:/path/to/shared/folder /media/somemountpoint

replace hostnameorip with the hostname/ip-address of your SuSE server 
and /path/to/shared/folder with the path of the folder that you shared 
on your SuSE server. You then mount that nfs-share on your local 
filesystem in Ubuntu in the folder /media/sommountpoint where 
somemountpoint would have to be an exisiting (but empty) folder on your 
machine.
If you want this to happen automatically upon booting, you can put an 
entry in /etc/fstab for the share.

Good luck,

Dolf.


Jerry Houston wrote:
> On my SuSE server, I use an NFS server to export a dozen folders for use by 
> other computers here - e.g., movies, music, calendars, downloads, torrents, 
> and so on.  My SuSE workstation and laptops have NFS clients that mount those 
> folders for local use.
>
> I haven't found any equivalent on the Ubuntu systems I've been experimenting 
> with.  I can access those remote folders using ftp:// or smb:// (they're 
> exported using Samba also), but they're not visible in some applications where 
> I'd like to use them.  For example, I can't select my macros folder for use in 
> Firefox with dejaclick.
>
> Is there a real NFS client available for Ubuntu that I just haven't found yet?  
> Something that will let me mount those folders in the file system where they 
> can be found by any application?
>
> Thanks,
>
>     Jerry in Bothell, WA
>
>