nfs in FC5
Gordon Messmer
yinyang at eburg.com
Tue Apr 18 18:26:55 UTC 2006
Frank-Michael Fischer wrote:
> Here is the text from "System -> Help":
...
> To access UNIX shares, double-click on the Unix Network (NFS)
> object. A list of the UNIX shares available to you is displayed in
> the file manager window.
File a bug against its docs. gnome-vfs2 doesn't contain support for NFS.
> I am just asking how will I get the Unix Network (NFS) object showing in
> the file manager? Because only the Windows Network (SMB) object shows.
You can't, GNOME apparently no longer supports it.
> Actually there are also only two ways to access an SMB share: through
> "mount -t cifs" or (poor man's version) "smbclient". So how comes I can
> see the SMB shares in file manager without having an fstab entry or
> issuing a "mount"?
Because it's easy for a user-space process to interface with an SMB
server. gnome-vfs2 uses the same code that smbclient does.
NFS is a different beast entirely. Unless your server is configured
specially (using the "insecure" option), it won't accept requests to
mount or browse from non-root users on client systems. That alone makes
NFS support in Nautilus pretty much useless.
> "showmount -e little" would give you e.g. the following list on my test
> system:
>
> Export list for little:
> /home *
> /srv/install *
>
> Therefore one could have an automatic discovery of available shares (and
> other Linuxes have that).
Not really. How do you automatically discover hosts that offer NFS service?
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