Apparently, though unproven, at 14:18 on Friday 03 June 2011, Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly:
> On Friday 03 June 2011 13:37:54 Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > On Friday 03 June 2011 12:55:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Apparently, though unproven, at 12:44 on Friday 03 June 2011, Stéphane > > > Guedon > > > > > > did opine thusly: > > > > anyone use autofs to manage mounting of nfs on a laptop ? > > > > > > Is this mounting a share from an nfs server onto a laptop? > > > > > > > Is it fluent, > > > > easy to use ? > > > > > > It's NFS. The words "nfs" and "fluent, easy to use" do not belong in > > > the same sentence unless there's a "not" in the middle. > > > > > > The point is that NFS was not designed with laptops and other devices > > > that can be disconnected in mind. It was designed for secure LANs that > > > do not change much, and laptops present issues that are not easy to > > > solve. > > > > > > > How many shares maximum ? > > > > > > From a server? Hundreds, with ease. NFS is not the bottleneck, your > > > shares are limited by how much bandwidth you have over the network. > > > > Ok, it's a beginning.. :-) thank you ! > > > > Nfs hasn't been designed for laptop, it's ok. But, appart from coda > > (which has a file size limit of 1 giga, so, useless in home networking), > > I know nothing that is fit for network file-sharing for laptop (the > > laptop isn't the server of course). > > > > I search a solution for that since years ! > > samba? +1 Samba works nicely for ad-hoc connections, the kind of thing Windows clients would do. And it's a lot more tolerant of connections going away than NFS. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
