On Sunday 06 February 2011 18:39:01 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@hashkedim.com> [02-06-11 11:29]:
On Sunday 06 February 2011 18:00:15 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@hashkedim.com> [02-06-11 10:25]: ....
That reminded me that, a while before I accepted the hour-long automatic upgrade, I had installed an NFS client in the desktop to communicate with the laptop, and had partially installed also an NFS server (I didn't finish that chore because I didn't have the time just then, and it has to be done on the CLI because The Powers That Be, in their great wisdom, have removed that facility from YaST).
The Powers That Be, in their great wistom, have included yast2-nfs-server/common/client in the distro, but it is not installed in a basic system and not suggested. Those needing such devices are expected to install them themselves by their chosen method. A *simple* search is all that is needed to locate the software.
Thank you, Patrick. I already have pages on how to do this. As you say, the search for the information was not difficult.
In fact, before I had the disaster with II.3, I had a server on each of the two computers that make up my LAN.
then what point was the comment, mud-slinging, or just verbiage?
The sentence, which is anyway parenthetical, is self explanatory, if one reads it. It was about why the client is completely installed, but the server only partly so. There is nothing in it asking for assistance in installing an NFS server. But I can reveal to you, if you like, what was in my mind when I wrote that sentence. I was, and am, still confused about the asymmetry of including the client, but not the server, in YaST by default; in previous releases, both were in by default. If there is a client in a LAN, there must also be a server, and the logic of the decision of why suddenly to cut one out is unclear. It's possible that there are networks in which there is only one server, with a multitude of clients; that may be the case in large companies, and even of departments of such companies. But if openSuSE (as distinct from the $$$ product) is expected to be used also by smaller organizations and individuals, there really is no obvious reason for putting one in YaST and the other someplace on the Web. That's why v11.2 has both by default. I hope that is sufficient clarification. But I don't want to talk about it anymore. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org