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

Mon Dec 27 09:29:16 CET 2010

Op maandag 27 december 2010 07:20:09 schreef Marc Paré:
+> Le 2010-12-26 17:29, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
+> > Op zondag 26 december 2010 09:50:34 schreef Marc Paré:
+> >> 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
+> > 
+> > while we're on the subject, imo, user accessible NFS shares could be used
+> > with the notification area; like it was a USB disk, then people can
+> > mount/unmount it easier; or perhaps less problems if network is suddenly
+> > disabled and we have mounted NFS hosts.
+> 
+> This would certainly be quite handy as many households have more than 1
+> computer and they could then manage share easier.
+> 
+> Marc
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+indeed
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