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 -- "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>