I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but if you do a web search "linux howto nfs" you might find this https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/preamble.html The old "howto"s might have other networking ideas for you. If you have a man page reader nfs.5 and also some manual listings in volume 8 might help. Suse linux pro used to include the html "howtos" in the disk set, as well as nice man page readers, like tkman and tkinfo, and even pdf books on networking. And included easy set-up tools. I don't think "localhost" is the best network name to choose, however. It is already used, and might confuse. I played with nfs many years ago, but it got silly talking to myself. So now I blink led light bulbs on fancy wired and programmed microcontrollers. o1bigtenor wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 2:10 PM Munir Nassar <nassarmu at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I have my own domain, so I use a subdomain that is not on my public dns servers for internal use. You can use anything in the domain part but you really don't want there to ever be a possibility of a collision with a real world domain. .lan is a common default, .localdomain was also frequently used and ive seen .home used as well. >> >> If you do have your own domain just make up a subdomain that works for you. in my case I am using .ad.(mydomain).net because I am playing with samba-ad-dc >> > Very interesting. Have domains - - - didn't realize that one could use > a sub-domain in this way but then I'm new to this stuff and there is > so much to cover. > Pity there wouldn't be a poor man's guide to networking. Presently > there are seemingly about 20 areas every one of which has gotchas. > > Thanks!! > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >