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2. And then

Once you have done this, you may quit Linuxconf and it will prompt you. It will tell you that something has to be done in order to make effective the configuration you have done. Tell it to apply the changes.

Once you have configured the other machine in your "test" network, you can start to experiment.

here is a small guideline. Give it a try!

sect1>Can you ping it ?

Check that each machines can be reach through the network. Use the the command ping.

                ping machine
        

Once you can "ping" a machine, the rest should follow nicely.

2.1 Doing some telnet and ftp

Try to log in the other computers using telnet. You may want to create some user account with Linuxconf.

2.2 Creating a file server

Select one machine as the server. Using Linuxconf, using the menu networking/exported file-systems, make available to some machine one subdirectory, say /tmp. Quit Linuxconf and it will ask you if you want to activate the configuration changes. Let it do it.

Now you have a file server.

2.3 Accessing the server

With Linuxconf, using the menu file-systems/nfs volume select the /tmp directory from the server and select /server as the mount point.

Save this configuration and quit Linuxconf. Do the command

                mount -a
        

and go into the directory /server. You should see file in the /tmp directory of the server.


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