Desktop Frozen after trying to launch NFS mounted folder from Nautilus

[Sudheer Satyanarayana]

Hello Tim,

Thanks for the information. When I added a hostname in the /etc/hosts 
file, the NFS hostname directory and its sub-directories automatically 
appeared in the /net directory.



Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 00:04 +0530, Sudheer Satyanarayana wrote:
>   
>> I do have an NFS mount entry in my fstab
>>
>> x.x.x.x:/path/to/dir  /path/to/local/dir nfs
>>
>> But it didn't affect the desktop or Nautilus this time. The system 
>> mounts NFS at start-up if it is available. But when I restarted the 
>> computer, NFS was still unavailable .  I think I got an error message 
>> during the start up process.
>>     
>
> Usually, you'd get a long wait as it tried, and waiting, before it gives
> up and lets the next thing in the boot sequence do its thing.  It can
> get stuck for several minutes.
>
>   
>> After I restarted the desktop was restored and I can now launch
>> Nautilus. I don't know what exactly is the problem with NFS server. It
>> is actually not fixed till now(another mystery to be solved). If I
>> click the desktop shortcut icon to the NFS mounted folder, 
>> Nautilus opens the folder with no contents in it.
>>     
>
> You're seeing the empty mount point, which would normally have the
> remote end mounted over the top of it.
>
>   
>> I would be glad to implement on-demand mounting when the remote mounts
>> get accessed when intended. Could you provide  any links which has
>> step by step instructions to do it? 
>>     
>
> You need to have the auto filing system daemon running on the client
> (the one you're mounting things on).  Probably the autofs and netfs
> services (I'm looking at FC5, at the moment).  Then, when that's
> running, if you try to access the /net directory, it tries to reach the
> mount you've mentioned.
>
> The /net directory is empty.  The first sub-directory you write in your
> request (e.g. /net/fileserver) is the hostname for the server you want
> to connect to, the next sub-directory is for the exported folder you
> want from it (e.g. /net/fileserver/home).
>
> Syntax:  /net/hostname/exported-share-name
>
> Then, anything after that is just further down the directory tree of the
> remote system.
>
> e.g. /net/server/home/tim/data/finance-records/2007-10-02.text
>
> My server's hostname is, rather unimaginitively, "server".  I've
> exported my /home partition.  /tim/data/... and so on, is a filepath
> within the /home partition.
>
>   


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With Warm Regards,
Sudheer. S
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