[olug] Network drives on a laptop?

[DYNATRON tech]

yeah, i personally don't like linux samba.
NFS is the way to go.

just an opinon...


On 1/7/08, Christopher Cashell <topher-olug at zyp.org> wrote:
>
> On Jan 7, 2008 8:41 AM, Daniel Pfile <daniel at pfile.net> wrote:
> > How do you all handle your network drives on a laptop? With nfs or samba
> > if I'm plugged in on ethernet, put the laptop to sleep, and wake it back
> > up with wifi, the network mounts (of course) hang. Then I sit there are
> > have to locate who has the mount open, get it to close out and convince
> > the share to unmount. :( There are a few options, like write some
> > scripts to fire off with acpid on network/lid events. Or, I could try
> > something like AFS, but I'm not sure how well that would work in
> > practice. I have full control of my home server, which is all I'm
> > concerned about, so server side changes are an option.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> AutoFS.  It's the main automount daemon for Linux.  Extremely useful
> for this kind of situation.  Here's the package description from Red
> Hat: "autofs is a daemon which automatically mounts filesystems when
> you use them, and unmounts them later when you are not using them.
> This can include network filesystems, CD-ROMs, floppies, and so
> forth."
>
> Basically, you setup some mappings of local directories to remote
> network drives (or floppies, CD, etc).  Whenever you try to access the
> local directory that points to a remote drive, it will automatically
> mount the share (assuming it's not already mounted).  After a certain
> amount of inactivity, it will automatically unmount the drive until
> it's needed again.
>
> We make very heavy use of this at work for network shares (including
> /home), mostly for NFS, but we've set it up for Windows shares a few
> times, too.  If you're using LDAP, you can even store your automount
> maps in LDAP, which makes it even more convenient for large numbers of
> hosts.  Oh, and I do use it at home, too, so it's not an
> enterprise-only solution.
>
> Just install the autofs package and check autofs(1) and
> auto.master(5).  Googling will provide some example maps and more
> docs, too.  Let me know if you have any questions, and I'd be happy to
> try to help (I'm not an expert, though! ;-).
>
> > -- Daniel
>
>
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> Christopher
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