On Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 18:53, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > On October 3, 2005 02:07, Derek Jennings wrote: > > On Saturday 01 October 2005 23:59, dimmitt wrote: > > > hi > > ... > > > > when i shut down the computer, i notice a thing that ¨stopping nfs > > > locking" fails. it has always done that, and i have basically ignored > > > it. but today i typed smbstatus in the terminal and saw a message that > > > said ¨no locked files¨, and I am wondering if there might be an issue > > > there? > > ... > > > First. NFS has nothing to do with networking to Windows computers. It is > > for networking Linux/Unix computers. If you go to Mandriva > > CantrolCentre>System>Services and uncheck the box on 'nfslock', then it > > will not run on the next boot and you will not see that message again. > > ... > > > derek > > Unless you absolutely need it (e.g. have to connect to a Solaris box that > doesn't run samba), disable every service that mentions NFS, because NFS > has designed-in (i.e. unfixable) security holes big enough to drive a > transport truck through, not to mention being unreliable (their own > documentation says to not send any file bigger than 10MB via NFS, as it may > be corrupted in transit!). Basically it's an obsolete, broken, piece of > garbage. It shouldn't even be installed.
What should we newbies with network problems do? Uninstall NFS entirely and use Samba for Linux only computers? Simon
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