HOWTO: Mount a folder/HDD on another computer in the network

I have 2 computers at home, both runing Ubuntu (6.10 & Herd 4). I have a 400Gb HDD mounted on the stationary computer with all my media. I also have a laptop (Aspire 1300) with a 20Gb harddrive.
What I have done is that I have mounted the 400Gb harddrive in the root of the Laptop.
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This guide will show how to mount a folder/HDD on a computer in your homenetwork.

Start with the following on the computer that has the folder/HDD you want to share.

sudo apt-get install nfs-commons nfs-kernel-server

then

sudo gedit /etc/exports

you will see something like this

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/400Gb is the path to the folder/HDD I want to share. 192.168.1.64 is the ip-number of the computer on my network that will have the /400Gb folder mounted (My laptop).
If you want to allow the client computer to be root in the mounted folder you write rw,no_root_squash,async instead of rw,async

Save and exit gedit.
Now do
sudo /etc/init.d/portmap restart

sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-common restart

sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart

Now we are done with the server computer. Now we configure the client computer (my laptop)

Start with creating a directory for the mounted folder/HDD and name it to what ever you want. In my realworld example I did

sudo mkdir /400Gb/

After that, we do

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Add the following to the document.

192.168.1.65:/400Gb /400Gb nfs _netdev,auto,user 0 0

192.168.1.65 is the IP-number for my stationary computer. :/400Gb is the folder/HDD on my stationary computer that I want to mount. The last /400Gb is the folder on the client computer where the mounted folder/HDD will be located.

Save and exit gedit. Reboot your system and everything should work.

To find out your internal IP number just do

/sbin/ifconfig

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Hopefully it works out just as easy as it did for me.

I believe it is:

sudo apt-get install nfs-common nfs-kernel-server

There is no s on the common

Cheers :)

Absolutely ingenious how easy this was :-)

Thank you very much!

private_lock

PS: There is no need to work your way through those lengthy "share your internet connection"-HowTos. Just plug a crossover cable in and assign two different IPs of the same subnet. E.g.:

Code:

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on the first computer
sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.5.1
on the second computer
sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.5.2

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where eth0 is your network device. Check with "ifconfig" without parameters.

Is there an updated version of these instructions for 12.04 LTS 64 bit OS?