On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 10:29 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote: > On Feb 1, 2008 7:59 AM, Vladimir Kosovac <vnk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Valent Turkovic wrote: > > > On Jan 31, 2008 7:58 PM, Eric H Christensen <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > >> Hash: SHA1 > > >> > > >> Valent, > > >> Not sure exactly what Howto you are looking for but there are documents at http://docs.fedoraproject.org and on the Fedora Project Wiki. > > >> > > >> Eric > > > > > > I'm asking if there are answers to most common questions, I see the > > > FAQ but those are the most basic Q&A and I see lots of questions > > > poping up on mailinlists and forums that don't have answers. > > > > > > Like this one: > > > "How can I setup samba to work (mount & unmount on bootup and > > > shutdown) in Fedora 8 (there are SELinux and NetworManager issues)." > > > > > Valent, I recently wrote samba paper as a section of the draft > > Administration Guide. You can find it here: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AdministrationGuide/Servers/SambaServer > > > > It's paragraph 5.5. Guide is set for release with the release of Fedora > > 9, which should give it more visibility. > > Thanks for the link it is great, but I was actually thinking (and > didn't write it) about samba client issues I found in Fedora 8. > I'm not a real admin so I'm probably doing something wrong, but here > is my experience. > I setup samba mount points in /etc/fstab and if I enable netfs service > to start in runlevel 3 that it fails becase network is up only when > you log in and gnome starts NetworkManager. There are ways of putting > scripts in NetworkDispatch folder so that when NEtworkManager starts > netfs service starts and mounts samba shares but this fails on > shutdown becasuse network goes down before samba shares are unmounted. > > > I don't use Network Manager and am not aware of the issues samba client > > might have with it. SElinux requirements are explained in the same paper. > > > > > I know that there are lots of knowledgeable fedora users and devels > > > that can answer these and similar questions but new users need to know > > > where to look for them. Can something be done so that somewhere these > > > howto Q&A are accesible easily to new users - maybe some wiki page? > > > > > There is nothing standing in a way of someone who wants to take the > > ownership of any new useful documentation, including FAQ. We are a bit > > short-handed at the moment though - would you be interested in joining > > the docs project, perhaps and start on this one? I'm happy to help as > > much as I can, more once AdminGuide work is completed. > > I'm willing to help work on HowTos wiki page, but I'm new to wiki > editing so somebody should probably instead of me lay the foundation > of the wiki page - the paragraphs, sections (networking, desktop, > multimedia... etc...) and I'll start working on it after that of if > you have some other way how it is done and how I can contribute just > say how. > > Cheers, > Valent. > > > Cheers, Vladimir > > > > > Valent. > > > Only way around that is to start using the internal/console network and not network manager. I would say that it is a bug but it isn't really. Network Manager will start when you start gnome/kde where as fstab starts a lot earlier. e.g. service network restart ifup eth0 chkconfig network on chkconfig NetworkManager off This is one issue with Network Manager. Cheers, Marc -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
