On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 11:17 -0700, Robert Smits wrote: > For many years I've used scpm to reconfigure my laptop by changing the nfs > fstab file depending on what environment I was in. This year I understand > scpm is no longer available in 11.3, and I've been told to use network > manager. In 11.2, network manager, despite it's name couldn't manage > networks, just connections. Has network manager changed so I can easily > alter my nfs setup as I move my laptop from connection to connection?
That depends on exactly what your needs were :) Back in 2008 your question was about "network profiles" which you could select at startup and which would automatically start your NFS/SMB shares for you when the network was connected. In NM-land you can do that with dispatcher scripts, which are basically like hooks that run when the network has gone up or has gone down. There's more information about this in 'man NetworkManager'. NetworkManager works with "connections" which are mostly like profiles, except you don't have to pick one on startup. They are mostly autodetected for those network types where we can detect such stuff. Each connection has an UUID (universally unique identifier) which can be used to perform operations when that connection goes up or down, like mounting specific shares. What's not there that I seem to recall you wanted was the ability to automatically mount shares without having to write scripts because at the time you were not comfortable doing so. And I admit there is not a good, user-friendly mechanism to do this yet from the GUI. It can, however, be done with dispatcher scripts. In Fedora we ship an 05-netfs script which restarts the 'netfs' service when a network connection goes up or down. 'netfs'is is a simple service that mounts and unmounts any CIFS/SMB, NFS, or NetWare mount listed in /etc/fstab. I have to assume that SUSE has something similar. It doesn't care about the connection UUID, but UUID checks could be added to bring up certain shares only when connected to your home network for example. Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list