On Saturday 21 June 2008 12:58:11 Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 12:34 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 21 June 2008 12:16:20 Craig White wrote: > > > > My first reaction to finding that I didn't have desktop icons for my > > > > nfs shares was a feeling of loss, yet I can open those shares in > > > > either dolphin or konqueror, so it's really no more than a minor > > > > inconvenience. The same goes for most of the other things that are > > > > 'missing'. Work-arounds exist, while work goes on to fix the > > > > situation. > > > > > > ---- > > > FWIW...I found that this behavior stopped when I went to autofs > > > mounting anyway so it's no loss. > > > > ?? A change to fstab, I presume? Example of current line is > > > > 192.168.0.40:/home /mnt/servername_home nfs nosuid,exec,rw,bg,soft,intr 0 > > 0 > > > > Do you mean change 'nfs' to 'autofs'? > > ---- > I don't use fstab to do nfs mounts anymore...that's so yesterday ;-) > Hey, after years of doing smb mounts I've only just learned how to do nfs mounts :-) > but the answer is no...there are no nfs mounts in fstab needed when you > use autofs > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Automount.html > > this is a good general explanation... > http://tldp.org/linuxfocus/English/January2001/article141.shtml > OK - More reading to do. > There are a lot of benefits to doing it this way...they are soft mounts > and not hard mounts. I can change the mounts simply by changing LDAP and > not having to change each computer (LDAP is not necessary for autofs but > is certainly a big plus). > LDAP is another whole new ball game. I keep thinking that I should read up on that, too, as is certainly would be helpful. Thanks for the links, Craig. Anne -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
