KerbyServer

The best way I have found to enable NFS on a Fedora system that has a firewall is to manually assign some of the NFS ports that are usually auto-negotiated and open just those ports in the firewall.

To do this, you can use Fedora's gui tool: system-config-nfs. In that interface, you can adjust the Server Settings as in the following screenshot:

...or just edit /etc/sysconfig/nfs to read:
LOCKD_TCPPORT=4001
LOCKD_UDPPORT=4001
MOUNTD_PORT=4002
STATD_PORT=4000


It is worth noting that if ssh logins are not working in my typical BackupPC setup after trading public keys and such, it is worth checking the permissions on the users' home directories, .ssh directory, and the key, authorized_keys2, and known_hosts files. If the permissions are too liberal on any of these files, public key authentication will fail.

In the case I need to manually (re-)install netatalk on an Ubuntu system, follow the following instructions. This is necessary because the Ubuntu version of netatalk does not include the uams_dhx.so library to handle encryption:

apt-get source netatalk
sudo apt-get build-dep netatalk
sudo apt-get install cracklib2-dev
cd netatalk-2.0.3
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=ssl sudo debuild
sudo dpkg -i ../netatalk_*.deb


Instructions thanks to: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=101823

To set up grub to boot Fedora 7 from the master ATA hard drive (hda) and Windows XP Pro from the slave ATA hard drive (hdb) in a computer, I included the following lines at the end of the /boot/grub/grub.conf file:

title Windows XP Pro

rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
chainloader +1

Pretty easy stuff...that's why when installing both Linux and Windows on a system, I go with a multiple hard drive approach. A lot less bothersome than dealing with partitioning a single disk.

I made some changes and implemented some user roles. Perhaps this system will grow on me to a point where I put it in a public place.