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| scorp123 (scorp123) wrote Re: Ubuntu 8.04: /sbin/mount.nfs no longer understands certain (standard?) mount options | #9 |
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@Darrel:
> I see "incorrect mount option" in ubuntu 8.04 with SGD (Sun Secure Global Desktop)
Yes, same here. I haven't tried Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04 yet but I'd expect the behaviour to be the same.
> some of the comments in this thread puzzle me
yup :-)
> and I'd prefer to use some distribution that is currently running here rather
> than install the SGD-blessed Linux distributions.
Same here. Let's face it: The officially supported distros (SLES 9? SLES 10? Oh please ...) suck badly for the most part (they are mostly outdated and getting extra-packages to work isn't nearly as easy as with "apt" on Ubuntu or Debian!). However, lacking a solution for Ubuntu at the moment I might give CentOS 5.3 a try which should be 100% compatible with the officially supported RHEL 5. So I hope the NFS mount options used by SGD still work there. Of all the available alternatives CentOS 5.3 sucks the least I guess ("yum" is no "apt" but I think I could live with it if the rest works under SGD ...).
Besides, for really large file transfers we use this SGD plugin: "ToolBox Backplane Service" aka "TBS".
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"TBS" has a "File Transfer" module which more or less works and looks like a web-based SFTP client. So you'd click on the "File Transfer" icon and the right pane of your webtop (which mostly isn't used for anything but for displaying the "Welcome to your webtop" message ...) turns into a SFTP client ... If you can't get CDM to work (thanks to the missing NFS mount options ...) then TBS is a must-have IMHO.