LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

File and Service Sharing (Topic 2.209)

Review Questions

1. You have verified that the smbd daemon is running, but remote users cannot seem to see your Samba shares. What other daemon needs to be running?

2. What is the purpose of the root_squash and ro=hostname.domainname.com options in the /etc/exports file?

3. An administrator has just updated the /etc/exports command. The NFS daemon is running. What NFS command should be executed, and what separate daemon should be running, so that remote users can access the share?

4. What is the purpose of the following entries in an NFS configuration file?

   uid   0-60       -    # switch to nobody
   uid   61-80     41    # map 61-80 into 41-60

5. You have configured a Linux system as a client in an older WINS network. The name of the Linux client is jerry. You wish to determine whether the WINS server is properly resolving your client's IP address. The name of the WINS server is win1.garcia.com. What command would you issue?

6. You wish to mount a remote Samba share using the smbmount command. You have already set up the /usr/local/zeppelin directory as the mount point. The hostname of the remote system is jimmy. The name of the remote share is page. The username is robert. You want to specify the password when prompted. What does the command look like?

7. You wish to use the smbclient command to mount a remote directory. This command will be in a script, so you want to specify the username and password. The remote hostname is pink, and the share name is floyd. The username is david and the ...