James Pifer wrote:
I assume that your nfs server is the same machine. If it is, just change the address to 127.0.0.1 and it will mount your machine. I personally like to make things a bit more symbolic by using a host name. My machine has in the host table 127.0.0.1 localhost orion1
I just use orion1:/storage
The NFS server(s) are on other machines. Possibly dumb question, what would the point be of mounting nfs on the same machine?
Thanks, James
The reason is that I use autofs. This allows the nfs mounts to occur on a user by user basis. A user might be on the local machine or another machine. That way, the data follows the user not the machine. So if you couple ldap with the autofs, you can have a central area containing the user password and mount location. Then you can log onto any machine using ldap and your home directory will be mounted automatically. In addition, autofs allows you to have secondary servers to provide your data. If the primary server goes down, the secondary server will be taken over. You might want to change your option to soft, intr as part of your mount options. This should allow the nfs mounts to be interrupted. If you loose the mount, can you do a remount to get the data? -- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org