Sharing over NFS

[grega]

I have 2 servers 500 miles away. They're running Veritas to share a number of disks between them. I have no access to Veritas, only root access to both machines via telnet. There's a disk on server 1 mounted on /dir1. This disk is not controlled by Veritas. I need to be able to see /dir1 on server 2.

What I propose is to share this disk (using NFS) on server 1, and mount it on server 2. Is there likely to be any problems starting nfsd on both machines, sharing and mounting? Is this likely to interfere with Veritas?

Also, the files I want access to are 2Gb each - do I need to do anything else during sharing/mounting?

Thanks,

Greg.

 

[GoldenEagle]

I use veritas and NFS on quite a few of my systems and it has never caused any problems.

The 2Gb size shouldn't cause you any problems either.

 

[spavlov]

If these servers are so far away (500miles) I think you should have a firewall between them or they have a dedicated line? If no then I don't see the problem to mount
this disk. If you have the firewall then it's necessary to have the ports opened, but this is a big sequrity hole.