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Re: Free me from the pain of NFS!



On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:03:26AM -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> 	I currently have several NFS mounts to share my media between my
> PVR, my workstation, and my neighbour's workstation downstairs.
> 
> 	The problem is, a lot of the time the mounts are not loaded on boot
> for some reason or another (eg; in the case of a power outage, all computers
> come back up at the same time, but they don't all take the same amount of
> time to boot... so one will try to mount the NFS shares before the other is
> serving them, etc.)
> 
Something like AFS might help solve that problem.  However, it is
complex, requires a working Kerberos setup on your network and can be
more difficult to administer.  So, unless you are ready to handle all
that, I'd go with the autofs suggestions offered by others.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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