urgrue wrote: > Are there any decent alternatives to NFS and Samba when it comes to > remote mounts? Both are quite awful at dealing with mounts over > unreliable or slow lines. Last I checked Coda seemed quite incomplete > and complicated. Any other suggestions? Actually, I'd recommend NFS for its use of UDP for communications. It's hard to predict what behavior you want when the connection has problems. Have you looked through the nfs mount options in the mount man page? The 'soft', and 'timeo=' options are very useful. -- Matt Howard <mhoward@xxxxxxxxxx> Superior Insurance - Technical Services - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
