Re: [gentoo-user] autofs

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

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.


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