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

Sun Dec 26 13:16:52 CET 2010

On Sunday 26 December 2010 09:50:34 Marc Paré wrote:
+> 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
+
+We can try to fix the problem, but at first I think we will just build a copy 
+of Mandriva, change all elements from Mandriva like Icons, Logos etc to 
+the one's from Mageia and when system is running we will fix things so 
+they will be easier for our users.
+
+