On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 04:39:03PM +0100, John Talbut wrote: > I have a small home network with nfs set up so that the computers can share > files. Commonly only one of the computers is running, particularly at > first. I would like the running computer(s) to automount the nfs shares > from the other computers when they come on line. > > I have been using a line in etc/fstab to mount the shares. This works with > the one problem that a boot time there is a delay and a failure message as > the computer tries to mount the shares from computers that are not on line. > > I use gnome-volume-manager (gvm) to automount hardware devices. This, of > course, responds to HAL events and I presume that a computer coming on line > on a network does not cause the kernel to generate a HAL event. Is there > any way of getting gvm to automount nfs shares? > > Alternatively, I have read that some people uses autofs to automount nfs > shares. Would there be any problems with using autofs alongside gvm and > udev?
If you use a soft mount in fstab then it will background the mouning. However, if anything later relies on that mount point then that may hang waiting. Likely, you only share /home in which case you should probably have the server come up first. You may want to look at something like an automount daemon or perhaps a PAM module to just mount the user's home directory via nfs when they log in. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
