Re: mount nfs on the fly
There are 2 well-establish packages out there for doing just that :
- automounter : kernel-space implementation ( Debian pacakge autofs ) (
it's out there since '85 I believe - blame SUN Microsystems)
- amd : user-space implementation ( currently the Debian package for
this is am-utils )
Radu
Dalibor Straka wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 07:52:58PM +0200, hjvm@freenet.de wrote:
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>>Hello,
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>>I have a server at home which exports an nfs share. If the server is
>>powered on when I boot a client I can access the nfs share without
>>problems from the client as it is mounted accordingly to the rules of
>>fstab at boot time. But if I happen to power on the server when the
>>client has already booted, I have to mount the nfs share manually.
>>My question is: can I automate this process, i. e. could the client
>>automatically try to mount the nfs share when the directory to which the
>>share is mounted on the client is accessed?
>>I'm no expert, but I have observed that samba makes this
>>automatically. On the other hand I'd prefer to use nfs and not samba.
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>>Any advice is welcome. It might be a simple issue but I've found no
>>clues so far in the NFS-howto and other sources.
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>I don't know about any automatic tool. You can do it yourself through
>cron job or simple daemon. The best way is to make the server let you
>know ;-). For example the server can execute simple suid program written
>in C that does the desired things (through ssh using keys).
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>-- Dalibor
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