On 10/19/2011 11:11 AM, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2011-10-19 11:58, KevinO a écrit : > > Thanks Rama and Kevin for the optional methods ... but ... Mageia offers to > set > NFS shares in the MCC and it can't seem to do it seamlessly. I have 4 boxes > with > shares and they all have different motherboards so I don't think that the > problem > lies in any particular box. The all have the same problem with setting the > shares > and the same fix works on all of these boxes. > > We should make sure that the NFS shares are easily configured through the MCC > as > most households will have more than one computer under one roof. > > Being able to set shares easily also adds to the cool factor of a distro. > Setting > up shares through Konsole is not so cool for the average user. > You're missing a fundamental point, Marc. If your boxes can't find each other by name (by converting the name to an IP), they can't communicate by name.
Your network is not adequately setup for that, since you haven't provided any way for the boxes to know who they are, by name. This problem exists for ANY network of computers, whether Windows, Mageia, MacOS, etc.. Wiki: DNS man: /etc/hosts , /etc/resolve.com I think there is a graphical tool in mcc to enter the names and IP addresses of hosts. If so, use that. (I don't have time right now to boot my laptop and look) -- KevinO
