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.
