On 03/11/2010 12:41, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
On 03/11/10 11:04, Justin Stringfellow wrote:
(1) Create a way to share files between machines on a LAN really easily
that doesn't hang the system if the network goes away. SAMBA is too
complex. sshfs can hang a whole machine if a network goes down.
NFS soft mounts?
Yes, CIFS has a similar option. It's part of a solution, but it doesn't
exactly solve the whole problem. I'm sitting at my desk right now, using
a desktop. There's a laptop next to it which has a file on it that I
want to use. I could scp it (but then I end up with two copies), or I
could set up samba sharing on or other, or I could set up an NFS server
on one and mount it. I'm on a DHCP network without DDNS which doesn't
help. Both lack the convenience of just saying "I want something from
that machine there" and using Avahi or DNS to figure out how to get to
it, setting up an ad-hoc pairing and trust, and sharing files in a
really simple drag & drop way (or equally from a shell with full
tab-completion and familiar tools (cp, ls, mv) rather than smbclient or
ftp. All the required bits are already there, they just need putting
together in the right way :)
sounds like you need the automounter, then!
I dunno if it's the same on linux, but on solaris, the default automount
configuration allows you to browse any other nfs server on your network
via /net/<hostname>/<nfs_share> without prior configuration.
cheers,
--justin
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