Hi - has anyone got any advice/thoughts on this situation? The setup is this. I've got two machines: one's my workstation (A), and the other's an older, stuffed-to-the-hilt-with-ram-but-not-very-fast P166 (B).
A exports /home to B, and B exports /usr and /var/spool/[mail|news] to A. I can leave both on all the time, but since they're in my bedroom, I'd prefer to leave at least A off some of the time (ie night-time . . :-), and preferably leave both off. How can I solve the concurrent mounting problem that occurs if I turn them on together? I don't mind forcing a boot order - I'm thinking B first, so that A can find /usr (?), but then B doesn't find /home. I'd like to have both sets of NFS mounts in /etc/fstab so I don't have to manually run "mount A:/home /home" each time I boot B, after I'm sure that A has successfully exported /home. I suppose what I'm asking as well is: is there a way to make nfs do a mount "on-demand", i.e. when I log into B, and not at boot time? Any suggestions much appreciated! jc
