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

Mon Dec 27 14:44:11 CET 2010

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
+
+Note that when Mageia bugzilla is set up, current proposals are to 
+import MDV bugs - at least the current ones.
+So posting the bug on MDV bugzilla, with the proposed solution is the 
+best bet for now.
+We can (collectively) try to ensure that it is corrected in Mageia once 
+imported, even if nothing happens in MDV.
+
+> 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.
+
+Good idea.  That should go into bugzilla too.
+
+André
+
+André
+