Am Donnerstag, 24. September 2015 schrieb Gene Heskett: > On Thursday 24 September 2015 03:03:10 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > > > > > Subject says it all. I need to find the experts. > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > > > > > I use my local Linux User Group, full service. > > > > > > My local linux user group. Chuckle. I am 1 of a group of 3. Not too > > > many linux users in these here parts. I am quite likely 100 miles > > > from the nearest "user group" that numbers 10 or more. > > > > > > > I use nfs on my local network, it just works so I am far from an > > > > expert. I export my "/home/<user>" dir and manually mount , cli, > > > > on the clients. > > > > > > > > Debian stable. > > > > > > Debian Wheezy. With TDE. > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > Hi Gene! > > > > I dropped NFS on linux ages ago, due to simillar issues as you > > describe. Now I use SSHFS and haven't had any issues since then. So, > > what about using SSHFS instead of NFS? > > > > Nik > > Never heard of it till now. So I installed it, along with sshmenu which > pulled in a dozen other rubyish packages. > > Silly Q though, does mc understand sshfs? Or do I need to find a new 2 > pane file manager that does understand it? > > One thing's for sure, NFS, even V4 is old enough to have bit rot. > > Thanks Nik. Off to read some man pages. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Hi Gene! SSHFS is just like any other filesystem, so mc has no problems with that. But may I ask, what you do with sshmenu? Usally I just mount remote directories like that: sshfs nik@somehost:/just/the/path /where/i/want/it and unmount: fusermount -u /where/i/want/it Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp Einnehmerstraße 14 A-4810 Gmunden Tel.: +43 650 82 11 724 email: office@...