Re: [LUG] NFS with DHCP

[Julian Hall <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon Waters wrote:

> Cough - eek - for goodness sake use NFS and RTFM if going *n?x to *n?x,
> or later network filesystems from the *n?x stable.

Oops.  As in my last mail I've just set up Samba :)  Partly though due 
to the fact that as I said the machines dual boot, so I need the network 
to behave whether the machines are both in Linux or *either* is in Windows.

> Write a script to mount/umount? Why not just use one of the automounting
> daemons, or the "umount" command, I don't think a script is needed.

Now this topic is one that I am *very* interested in, for one simple 
reason, OK two reasons:

1.  My pet hate is clutter and for some reason Mandrake plasters my 
desktop with mounted drives, such as the 4 drives in my MultiCard Reader.

2.  The PC hangs looking for the multicard devices every boot and 
changes its' mind (it's a USB device) seemingly on a whim as to whether 
it can see them or not.  I know it's probably NOT a whim but it is 
random enough that I can't pin down why sometimes it sees the drive and 
other times not, aside from it being a Useless Serial Bus device that is ;)

What I would *like* to do is quite simple.  It is obvious that the CD 
behaves as a proper "removable device" and the icon for my CD only 
appears when there is a CD or DVD actually in the drive.  I'd like the 
other removable drives I have to behave the same way.  I've looked at 
the man pages for mounting devices, and studied the fstab entry for the 
CD in comparison to the other devices.  The first I'll admit confused 
me, while the second I could not work out which bits I needed and which 
were overkill and/or specific to a CD.

My fstab at the moment looks like this:

/dev/hda8 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda10 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb6 /mnt/aragorn ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/aria vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto 
umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/hda7 /mnt/cynthia vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount 
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 
0 0
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/frodo ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/natalie vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
//rachel/rachel /mnt/rachel smbfs username=% 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/sam vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sitecom/mmcsd vfat 
umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/sitecom/smart vfat 
umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/sydney vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda9 swap swap defaults 0 0

I *think* I need the automount option and maybe Mandrake's Supermount?

Does that sound right?

BTW one of my hard disks is in a removable caddy but the system sees it 
as an internal drive, so I'm assuming if I unplugged it the system just 
wouldn't mount it.

Kind regards,

Julian

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