How To: Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 - Part 2 - Adding NFS : Introduction
Introduction
In my previous article, I showed how to get a command prompt on the NSLU2 by using a hidden option and editing the password file in an external system. In this article, we'll continue exploring the box with the goal of adding new functions to make it even more useful.
Since the box runs a version of Linux, there are a whole host of software packages that one could install on the system. One could envision expanding the web server on the box for custom applications, or perhaps installing a ftp server or a secure shell server to replace the telnet server. My first goal was to install a different network file system.
As delivered by Linksys, the only support provided is for SMB - the network file system protocol that is native to Microsoft Windows. Since my home network is mostly composed of UNIX-based machines such as Apple's Mac OS X and Linux, a natural extension for me is NFS, the network file system native to most UNIX systems.
But before we can start installing new packages, there are a few difficulties to overcome. The first thing we'll have to do is set up a development environment, since we'll be building the required packages. The rest of this article assumes that you have followed the previous article and have enabled telnet on your NSLU2.
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