[Mageia-dev] Setting NFS shars and making the process more user friendly

Sun Dec 26 09:50:34 CET 2010

I was just recently reminded of this on a Mdv list. Is there a way to 
+make the setting of NFS shares easier for users. Way back in Mandriva 
+2008 the NFS process was very well done and users would only have to 
+establish NFS shares with other computers and the etc/fstab was properly 
+written.
+
+Since Mdv 2009 the process seems to have been broken and I have had to 
+go into the fstab and change manually the pathway to from "computername" 
+to "ip pathway".
+
+I had posted the fix on the MDV forums and put in a bug for this. I am 
+not sure if my bug was not well written and maybe that is why it was 
+never really taken up by the dev team.
+
+You can find the post here: 
+http://forum.mandriva.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=87&t=113793 and you will 
+find the process to establish NFS shares at the very bottom of the post. 
+NOTE that the shortcut to the bugzilla no longer works.
+
+I still use this process with MDV2010.2 and set my fstab by hand. I have 
+4 networked MDV boxes in the house and they all use NFS shares.
+
+It would be nice if this were fixed with Mageia as it would be quite an 
+advantage from a user's point of view as this would make the setting of 
+shares fullproof. Setting up of NFS shares could then be advertised as a 
+positive point from a marketing point of view.
+
+Note the the setting of NFS shares comes up constantly on helplists and 
+most of these involve the fstab.
+
+Marc
+
+