RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b

[atari@bright.net (Lonny Pursell)]

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:44:28 +0300 (EEST), Martin-Eric Racine wrote:

>> mount filesystems somewhere else, go ahead and do it, but keep the
>> entry in U:\ and hide it.     The concept is OK, don't break it.
>
>Keeping the auto-mounted entries in U, as long as they are
>hidden, would suit me just fine.  ;-)
>
>However, it still doesn't give us back the ability to use FSTAB
>for inserting hierarchies at a precise mount point, when desired.
>
>There is still one unresolved issue, pertaining to mounting:
>Networked drives (e.g. NFS and Samba).  How will we mount those,
>while trying to keep the method consistant with what is done on
>other Unices?
>
>Btw, I haven't tried Samba yet, but NFS definitely doesn't work
>right with non-MiNT systems.  My admin reports it won't respond
>to authentication requests.  Also, doing 'ls' on /nfs shows the
>content of /proc instead of what's in it, every couple of times.
>Could this be caused by the nfs.xfs client?

Probably not caused by nfs, but by the lack of any real identd
under mint.

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