On Thursday 24 September 2015 05:27:44 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > 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 that works, once I had done a "sudo chown -R gene:gene /sshnet" ls -l's now work on /sshnet/shop. With my pw. Expected, I am limited to what I own on shop, but thats a heck of a lot better than before. I'll get all the details together in a script. I assume we still have an expect util I can feed with my pw yet? I haven't looked lately, as in 5+ years & several installs ago. To late in the night here, or too early in the morning to spend a lot of time on it until I've found some more sleep. Thanks Nik. > and unmount: > > fusermount -u /where/i/want/it I'll let reboots do that. :) > > Nik Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>