Re: [Evolution] NFS Mounted at Home Partial Fix!

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> I’ve been having trouble with NFS mounted on my home directories, and
> trying to use Evolution with it. Since I run a 10 machine network for
> 25 employees, I needed it fixed so that I could setup 2 or 3 persons
> to use each PC. 

You did not tell us, what you have mounted over NFS. But as you wanna
assign 2-3 persons to a single PC, I assume it is _not_ the /home
directory.

What part of your file system is nfs mounted? The Gnome system itself?


FWIW: Evolution and NFS runs fine for me. The /home is nfs mounted and
therefore _no_ configuration is stored on the local machine. (Actually,
it is a couple of weeks ago, since I used that setup myself.)

With nfs mounted /home and YellowPages you have the added benefit, that
there are 25 people, who can use any of the 10 PCs.


> The problem resides (I believe) with the locking daemon. A way I’ve
> found it to work for me is as follows:
>  
>      1. Logout of the system
>      2. When you are at User Selection Menu (where you type your user
>         name and password), Login as Root (I press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and
>         login from there. I’m using SuSE 8.1)
>      3. From the terminal type (as root) type: rcnfs restart (restarts
>         the NFS client)
>      4. Type: rcnfslock force-reload (should try to reload the nfs
>         lock demon and fail, but will also load the nfs stat demon
>         successfully)
>      5. That’s it. Relogin as any user and Evo should work fine. In
>         fact, you can logout and login as any user as many times as
>         you want, as long as you don’t power down the PC. 
>
> Now, this is a Partial fix, for I’ve been unable to make it work
> automatically. I’ve tried setting it up by turning it on by default on
> the runlevel editor, but it doesn’t work (I’ve tried at all levels
> with no success)…

I may be wrong, but that sounds nasty.

IMHO /etc/fstab is the place to change how the nfs file systems are
mounted. Seems, there are some strange/unusual options set. Maybe a SuSE
issue with default configuration?


> I’m sure someone out there knows how to set it up properly, and knows
> what I’m missing to make it work. Please, do speak up!

HTH

...guenther


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