[Mageia-discuss] Setting up NFS shares with MCC -- fixing etc/fstab

Sun Oct 23 16:42:29 CEST 2011

Hi Bernard
+
+Le 2011-10-22 07:02, Rama Space Ship a écrit :
+> Hello Marc,
+>>
+>>> If you add the <host name>/<IP address> mapping using the
+>>> MCC/Network/<Host definitions> and don't modify by hand the fstab file,
+>>> does it work or not?
+>>>
+>> Yes, I tried:
+>>
+>> IP address: 192.168.2.2
+>> Host name: MarcComputer
+>> Host Aliases: MarcComputer
+>>
+>> The only problem with this is that when the router is re-set the IP
+>> addresses may change unless you have setup static IP addresses.
+> Using the IP address in fstab has the same limitation.
+>>
+>> When the NFS used to work, you did not have to go through these steps.
+>> The process would find the NFS servers and set up the shares and fstab
+>> by itself. It no longer does that and the average user would not know
+>> to set up host definitions etc.
+> My question was not to provide a workaround, but to help identify where
+> the problem is.
+
+Sorry if it sounded like I was picking on your statements, it was not 
+intended to sound like this.
+
+> It seems that you have a name resolution problem, not a NFS problem. If
+> I take the fstab file you use when starting that thread:
+
+Yup, the NFS is rock solid once it is set in fstab correctly.
+
+> - the setting of NFS shares uses "linux-5" as remote hostname (question
+> to an expert: how does the tool find this name?)
+> - but "linux-5" is not found as a remote host (question to Marc: is
+> "linux-5.local" found as a remote host, e.g. can you ping linux-5.local?)
+> If your remote host is named "linux-5", "linux-5.local" should work as
+> it should be published by the ZeroConf mechanism (avahi).
+>
+> So if this works, the best workaround could be to use "linux-5.local" in
+> the fstab file as it does not depend on static IP addresses.
+>
+> The fix would be that the setting of NFS shares uses ZeroConf hostnames.
+>
+>> Somehow, the setting up of NFS shares and fstab was broken in older
+>> versions of Mdv and never fixed.
+> It was probably broken when the ZeroConf mechanism was used, as the
+> hostnames got ".local" appended.
+>
+> Regards.
+>
+> Bernard
+>
+>
+
+Yes, all of this seems to make sense. Is there a way to test this or 
+should it be put to the bugzilla? Is this considered an easy fix?
+
+Cheers,
+
+Marc
+
+