Re: Automounting nfs shares
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.
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