I recently bought a 750GB hard drive and installed it in my linux box running Fedora Core 5. Since I run my iTunes on my powerbook and have this big hard drive in my server I needed a way to add network access to the disk from OS X. I chose to setup the linux box as a NFS server and then use the built in network connector in Finder to connect to my drive.

How to setup NFS server on Fedora Core 5

With a very standard install of FC5 you should have all the nessesary deamons to run NFS. First you will need to edit the /etc/exports file. I know there is a way to do this with the GUI but a far better way to learn is to do it by hand. Before actually editing the file I’d do a man exports or check it out here as I am only going to include what I did when there are many other features that you may choose to use. su vi /etc/exports add line of the form: /path/to/shared/dir hostname/ip(options) so that it looks like: /mnt/tmp 192.168.0.4(rw,insecure,sync)

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