On October 3, 2005 02:07, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Saturday 01 October 2005 23:59, dimmitt wrote: > > hi ... > > when i shut down the computer, i notice a thing that ¨stopping nfs > > locking" fails. it has always done that, and i have basically ignored > > it. but today i typed smbstatus in the terminal and saw a message that > > said ¨no locked files¨, and I am wondering if there might be an issue > > there? ... > First. NFS has nothing to do with networking to Windows computers. It is > for networking Linux/Unix computers. If you go to Mandriva > CantrolCentre>System>Services and uncheck the box on 'nfslock', then it > will not run on the next boot and you will not see that message again. ... > derek
Unless you absolutely need it (e.g. have to connect to a Solaris box that doesn't run samba), disable every service that mentions NFS, because NFS has designed-in (i.e. unfixable) security holes big enough to drive a transport truck through, not to mention being unreliable (their own documentation says to not send any file bigger than 10MB via NFS, as it may be corrupted in transit!). Basically it's an obsolete, broken, piece of garbage. It shouldn't even be installed. -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine.
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