On Sat, 2026-01-24 at 15:41 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > Cinnamon and Gnome default installs don't include autofs -- does KDE include > it?
I use autofs for things like ls /net/computerHostName/NFSexportName To access remote network shares on demand, and nothing else. I install it on every PC, myself. I found that putting a NFS share in /etc/fstab meant hangs at shutdown if there was some networking problem anywhere. And if it wasn't available at boot time, you had to manually intervene. The access a remote share simply by calling its filepath somewhere, solved those problems. Other things, like inserted USB flash drives or optical discs, were handled fine by the desktop environment (Mate, at the moment). I haven't use SMB for decades. It was a pain, and I only used to access shares from a Windows PC. I was glad to see the back of it. Various interfaces between different devices and networks did annoying things such as UID/GUI squashing and their own ideas of default file permissions. Instead of saving files as the current user the same as any locally stored file in their homespace. I know there are safety concerns about NFS, but this is within an isolated LAN. SSH and SFTP are used to cross over into the WWW. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
