topic Re: Sharing for a specific machine in Operating System - HP-UX

Sharing for a specific machine

Ahmed_41 — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 08:27:03 GMT

Dear All,

i am workin gon an HPUX machine, i am doing an export file to share and mount some folders on a windows machine using the NFS client on windows and NFS server on HPUX,
i need to do something to prevent anyone else except my machine to mount or access these shares except for my owen machine

can someone tell me how to do it
Thanks

Re: Sharing for a specific machine

Peter Godron — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 08:31:32 GMT

Ahmed,
if you use SAm to export the FS you can set the hostname and the access restrictions(read only, read/write)
or
have a look at man exportfs
specifically the -o option section
Regards

Re: Sharing for a specific machine

Simon Hargrave — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 08:42:46 GMT

in your /etc/exports use something like:

/folder/to/share -access=yourpc

then exportfs -a

Re: Sharing for a specific machine

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:01:21 GMT

/etc/exports can limit by hostname

/foldername access=myclient

myclient is a hostname or an ip address

SEP

Re: Sharing for a specific machine

Ahmed_41 — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:12:31 GMT

Thanks all

but what is the difference between what you said and this

/foldername -root=myclient

when i do this i still can connect to these shares from any clinent other than myclient

i mean, i have added the above line to my exports file and i can still access these shares from other machine other than myclient

so ?

Re: Sharing for a specific machine

Simon Hargrave — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:22:08 GMT

the root option is saying "let this specific client have root equivelancy, that is they have full root access to the drive", and let everyone else have basic access.

if you want you and you only to have root access, then combine the options:

/dir -access=mypc,root=mypc