January 28

Rice Pudding



Today I set up a computer for the guys downstairs, running Debian unstable. I wanted them to have access to the music on the server so NFS seemed like the easiest way to go. I have set it in the past but needed to find a guide this time around as I had forgotten some of the steps. After about an hour however I was getting nowhere. My exports file was correct seemingly, I had added stuff to hosts.allow and host.deny on both the server and client, installed portmap and twiddled with a couple of other things but still no go.

I don't recall NFS being this hard to configure. Eventually I gave up, purging all the NFS software and backing out of all the files I had edited. Then it occurred to me that as Sarah's Windows computer was already using Samba to see the files, I could just use that but with a Linux client instead of a Windows one. I made SMB passwords for the boy's accounts and restarted samba and there was the music all ready to go. It bothers me that I couldn't export a share using NFS, at this point that sort of thing shouldn't be hard for me to do but oh well.


I want to make Rice Pudding. The old fashioned kind with a touch of nutmeg and some cinnamon and of course raisins. I am not sure if stove top or baked is the way to go though and my Mom, the recipe queen has never made it from scratch. Maybe Donna knows...

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