HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Configuration Management

5 Configuring Networking

This chapter describes the following networking topics:

• “Configuring the Network File System (NFS)” (page 75)

• “Configuring File Transfer Protocol (FTP)” (page 87)

• “Interfacing with Microsoft Windows Systems” (page 106)

Other networking issues are described in:

• “Setting System and Network Parameters” (page 41)

• “Ethernet Configuration and Verification” (page 135)

Configuring the Network File System (NFS)

This section provides procedures and troubleshooting information for the Network

File System (NFS).

NFS allows a computer to access a file system that resides on another computer’s disks,

as though the file system were installed locally.

The NFS server is the computer to which the disk is physically attached. NFS clients

are the computers that use the file system remotely. Before an NFS client can mount a

file system that resides on the NFS server’s disks, the NFS server must share it.

Before you can share file systems, you must install and configure NFS software on both

the server and client systems. In most cases this will have been done when the systems

were installed. Use the NFS Services Administrator's Guide if you need to install NFS.

For information and guidelines on planning a workgroup’s file-sharing configuration,

see the HP-UX System Administrator’s Guide: Overview.

This section contains information on the following:

• “Sharing an HP-UX Directory” (page 77)

• “Mounting a Shared File System (HP-UX to HP-UX)” (page 78)

• “Troubleshooting NFS” (page 84)

• “Recovering Network Services after a Power Failure” (page 86)

• “Moving or Reusing a Shared Directory” (page 87)