Marc Chamberlin said the following on 02/06/2011 10:29 PM:
Then it appears that NFS is a dead end for me. I tried to export the mount point itself with the following added to my exports file -
I did say that I thought with all your fiddling your configuration is buqqered up somewhere. The reason I think this is that "It works for me" I've done - albeit on the USB port on my server - what I've been telling you. And not doing the things I've been telling you NOT to do. I've been following the normal Linux conventions and not fighting them or bitching about them. Yes I can successfully mount USB storage devices on the server, export them via NFS, mount them via NFS on my laptop and access them I've tried this with the crappy little 16M and 64M things I've been given at trade shows and with a 2G USB Drive on which I have a bootable system. The drive, being a drive, is slower than the solid state devices. I've tried this on the USB1 and USB2.0 ports. I'm happy that what I've been telling you to do works 'cos "It works for me". My conclusion is: You've Got Gremlins But then I am exporting the device, not the mount point. When you mount the device is BELOW the mount point, and as I said and you have verified, NFS won't go past the mount point. OBTW, you are aware, I hope, that the BUSUID, DEVUID and all that refer to the points under /proc/bus/usb and not to /media/ The rules for UDEV are under /etc/udev/ The rules for HAL are under /etc/hal (All of which you could have found from the MAN pages) As I was saying, Linux is perfectly logical. And, as I said, the device notifier is a KDE applet that lets you deal with the mounted devices, it does not do the mount. All it does is let you run the file manager, or gwenview or something. As for the idea of giving a user coming in from across the network the ability to copy/move .... We suggested ways to do that originally and you rejected them. We - I recall I did - suggested that you use 'rsync'. Rsync has the advantage that it can keep both USB sticks - or any other object/target pair, in sync, only updating what has been changed. It can also be automated. That way whenever you wife makes a change it triggers the rsync to update your copy. And vice versa. Mind you, most of us would find it simpler to have one and only one shared copy (on a server) and copy that the (local to you each) USB devices when needed. All of which ensures you have one reference copy and avoid all the problems you have encountered. The consultants among us know that productivity and overcoming problems is more often effected by changes in process. Difficulties such as yours are usually a Big Red Flag that says "you're doing it wrong". We ask "what are you trying to achieve" rather than "what are you trying to do". Perhaps that's part of your problem. OBTW: Marc, it is considered impolite to reply on the forum to mail that you have been sent privately, off forum. -- Parkinson's Law: Never Interview Emus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org