On Thursday 24 September 2015 05:18:52 Gene Heskett wrote:

> 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

Well, as a sample fstab entry, I have gotten as far as its asking for a 
root password, something that does not exist on any of my debian 
installs. and of course my pw, used with sudo, is no good.

How do I go about telling it I am the user doing the mounting and if 
needed, the unmounting? "defaults,idmap=user" in the fstab apparently 
does nothing.  As a test, miss-spelling user does get bounced.

Thanks Nik.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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