On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 11:32 +0200, Chris Fanning wrote: > 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. :(
Hmm, could you tell what happened? I would like to know the exact cause of this strange nautilus behaviour. Regards, Olaf > > 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 -- Olaf Frączyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list