Re: Gnome Desktop Only

Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
> Stephen Moore wrote:
> 
>>Is there a equivilent for browsing nfs?
> 
> 
> No, it is not built into the protocol (security by obscurity).  If you 
> know the name of the machine, however, you can use showmount show all 
> available exports.

And in an shop using NIS (yp) for hosts, like most Solaris one,
'ypcat -k hosts' will give a nice list of hostnames for showmount.

But I've never seen an nice simple script to do it, nor an app to 
present as a GUI and automount them for you. Could be done, but it 
wouldn't be worth much. One of my machines can 'showmount -e' all the 
hosts it wants but those hosts won't allow it to mount the filesystems.
I could probably fake hostname and MAC address, but why bother,
I can just use a machine the can mount the filesystem. Less hassle than 
getting the box added to the list of those who can mount.

	-Thomas