Hi, > The desktop box is diskless booting with live-initramfs. > for some reason, /home isn't present in /etc/mtab (although it is in > /proc/mounts) > > Reading somwhere these days I saw something about nautilus and mtab...
I fixed my mtab problem and now the nfs mount /home shows ok. And it also seems my nautilus problems have gone too! :) I'm very sorry about the fuss. :( Thankyou for your time Christian. Chris. On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Chris Fanning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Am Dienstag, den 17.06.2008, 09:09 +0200 schrieb Chris Fanning: >>> /home/user/shares/mount1 >>> /home/user/shares/mount2 >>> /home/user/shares/remote_server/mount3 >>> >>> > Listing "shares" already causes network traffic for all >>> mounts. Just >>> > mount a bunch of shares, launch a network sniffer like wireshark and >>> > enter "ls" in the "shares" directory. >>> > >>> not so here. 'ls' isn't creating network traffic at the 'shares' >>> directory or at the 'remote_server' directory, but only once I >>> actually 'cd' into the mountpoint. >> >> How are you mounting these shares exactly, and what SMB clients/servers >> do you use? Maybe we will be able to reconstruct your issue if you fully >> specify your environment. >> > sure. I hope I can be of help. > > the desktop is ubuntu 7.10, using pam-scripts we create smb.cred and > run through a text file ~/.shares that reads server:share > server:share, etc > mount -t cifs //$server/$share $mountpoint -o > iocharset=utf8,credentials=$CRED_DIR/smb.cred > > both samba servers are debian etch's. > > The desktop box is diskless booting with live-initramfs. the root > filesystem is a union of ram and nfs. /home is mounted onto that from > another nfs server. > / (union de nfs and ram) > /home (nfs mount) > /home/user/share/mount1 (cifs mount). > > for some reason, /home isn't present in /etc/mtab (although it is in > /proc/mounts) > > Reading somwhere these days I saw something about nautilus and mtab, > so thinking this might be the problem I have also tested mounting the > shares on /tmp (because /tmp is present in mtab). > > /tmp/user/shares/mount1 > /tmp/user/shares/mount2 > /tmp/user/shares/remote_server/mount3 > > So, there are some cifs mounts on the /tmp directory and _no_ cifs > mounts on my home directory (no softlinks to the shares on /tmp > either) . Now when I open nautilus at my home, I can see network > traffic to the samba servers!! That has taken me by suprise. It seems > Nautilus is doing something like > # ls -laR / > > After getting correct results with pcmanfs, I've also tried thunar. No > problem there either. > > What's the next step? > > Cheers. > Chris. > >> best regards, >> Christian Neumair >> >> -- >> Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> > -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list