E-smith 3.x:
1. Is RedHat rpm for knfsd the package required for Linux hosts to mount the e-smith hard drive via NFS?
2. Will the web based "backup" take a "snapshot" of such exported files?
I am not that familiar with RedHat based systems, but it has often occurred to me that the e-smith distro might make a superior NFS server in my LAN -- the ability to make a minimal backup via a browser would make it easy for our secretary to backup each server, every day, to a dedicated machine, without the need for tape drives, etc., etc. (I know that this is not intended as a "mission critical" backup, but it would be better than nothing, and nothing is what happens if I'm out of the office).
My NFS experience has been with Slackware, and I THINK I determined that there isn't a nfs daemon running on the e-smith machine because when I actually tried to export file systems yesterday, the workstation couldn't mount them and reported a protmapper error (Didn't write it down, and I'm not at the office).
I'm not comfortable with running NFS on the gateway, because I don't want to open some security hole that was plugged by e-smith, so this is something I will experiment with in "server only" mode.
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