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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