ubuntu server and mac desktops

I am a mac user that was given a pc so I put ubuntu server on it. and now I would like to set it up as a file server. I have been searching around for a good howto to get me started but i can't find anything. can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks for the help

 

I have been able to get NFS working. however i only have read permissions from my mac here is a copy of my /etc/exports

Code:

/home/NFS       192.168.0.0/24(rw,no_root_squash,insecure,async)

My mac's ip address is 192.168.0.100

any ideas?

 

Did you try this tutorial? http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/

 

I had not looked at that tutorial but after looking at it the only info I found was about spacing and that did not seem to change anything for me.

Any other ideas would be appreciated

Thanks

 

Can you try

Code:

/home/NFS       192.168.0.0/24(rw)

in /etc/exports?

What's the output of

Code:

ls -la /home/NFS

?

 

here is the output of the ls

Code:

total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2007-04-02 16:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2007-04-02 16:11 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-02 16:11 Movies
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-02 16:11 TV

and if now that i have removed the insecure part in /etc/exports i can't mont the drive from my apple finder and i don't know how to specify a user from the cli.

 

an update,

it seems that the only way I can get write permissions is if i give the "others" group write permissions. But that means that everyone using can write to that folder. just to test it I when back to the exports file and changed the permissions in there to read only, unmounted the share, restarted the nfs server and remounted it and I still had write privileges. So the privileges in the exports file are not being used. Anyone have any idea why?

Thanks for the help

 

and more.

Just found the answer I think you have to set the permissions on the folder that you are sharing to rwxrwxrwx and then use the permissions in the export file to control access i was wrong in my last post i just look at the get info and is said i still have write permissions but when i tried to put something there it wouldn't let me. but now i have my exports set up like this

Code:

/home/NFS       192.168.0.100/32(rw,no_root_squash,insecure,async)
/home/NFS       192.168.0.100/24(ro,no_root_squash,insecure,async)

Where 192.168.0.100 is my computer where i am uploading files from.

Thanks again everyone for you help