Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i'm currently reviewing a doc on suse linux enterprise 11, the
section on NFS, but i don't have a SLES 11 machine in front of me.
could anyone who uses both SLES 11 and fedora 12 comment on how
indistinguishable the NFS setups are across those two distros?
so far, i haven't seen a lot that's massively incompatible, and i
wouldn't expect to. obviously, the fundamental files are going to be
the same.
I've had a bit of extra time and did install an openSUSE vm.
While the underlying structure is the same, e.g. both systems have
/etc/idmapd.com, /etc/sysconfig/nfs. But, it doesn't appear that suse
uses nfsmount.conf.
openSUSE separates the startup services into client (/etc/init.d/nfs)
and server (/etd/init.d/nfsserver).
openSUSE seems to have GUI tools that are a bit "better". The tools for
nfs client and nfs server are separate and seem "better" integrated with
their firewall tool.
All that said, I've been able to mount a directory using nfs4 on the
suse system that was exported from a f12 system. So, far I've not found
the right incantation to do the reverse.
I should say "thanks" for bringing this sort of thing up. Nice
diversion to normal things and a new procrastination excuse. :-)
Ed
FWIW, I've not spent any time trying to get a pure nfs4 environment.
IMHO, it doesn't buy anything.