[olug] Network drives on a laptop?

[Kevin]

Can NFS be used with Windows, though?

On Jan 7, 2008 12:44 PM, DYNATRON tech <dynatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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