Hi,
I tried to research on the net but I guess everybody is trying to map windose drives onto linux.. So, I need to cover some some basics while mountin a network drive between linuxes.
If I try "mount 10.0.0.1:/ /PM" I get access denied errors which is obvious since I am try to connect to a secure server..
Where do I supply username and password for the server I am trying to connect to?
Do I need samba?
Also, remote server has 2 mounts that I want to map to, they are hda and scsi, could I map to both of them at the same time, meaning that can I see both the drives from my PM directory?
Thanks in advance..

If you are going from linux to anything but windows why would you need SAMBA? (a rhetorical question). If you want to remote mount you will require a proper NFS setup. Otherwise you are into configuring ssh, or vpn, or krb5, or X, or telnet, or ftp, or vserver, or AFS, or (I'm sure I missed something).

Isn't linux cool?

nz

Yes, I think linux is very cool...If I can only leave the damn windose world...
Back to my question:::
Since "mount 10.0.0.1:/ /PM" does not work coz I get " failed, reason given by server: Permission denied"::
How would I configure the destination server to accept my mounting attempts.
Thanks again

Since NFS operates on the client/server principal, one machine will be the NFS server the other the client. You will need to edit /etc/exports /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny on the server to allow a mount from the client.
something like:

[michael@blacky ~]$ cat /etc/exports
/usr/archive 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,insecure,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,no_root_squash)
/home 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,insecure,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,no_root_squash)
/opt 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,insecure,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,no_root_squash)

and:

[michael@blacky ~]$ cat /etc/hosts.allow
#
# hosts.allow This file describes the names of the hosts which are
# allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
# by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
#

portmap: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
lockd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
rquotad: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
mountd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
statd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0

and:

[michael@blacky ~]$ cat /etc/hosts.deny
#
# hosts.deny This file describes the names of the hosts which are
# *not* allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
# by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
#
# The portmap line is redundant, but it is left to remind you that
# the new secure portmap uses hosts.deny and hosts.allow. In particular
# you should know that NFS uses portmap!

portmap:ALL
lockd:ALL
mountd:ALL
rquotad:ALL
statd:ALL

NOTE: These are files located on a secure network and the flags in /etc/exports are MY own preferences in light of the nature of MY network. NFS is inherently INSECURE so know what you are setting up. I only mount NFS like this when I am doing maintenance on this particular server.
You then have to set up a mount point on the client, start the portmapper, NFS, and mount the server volume either with - mount 192.168.1.40:/home -t nfs /mnt/home (or whaterver is the least confusing to you) or/and make /etc/fstab entries to mount the volume at boot.

I would google up tldp.org and get the Linux NFS-HOWTO before proceeding.

nz