Re: [tlug] disk configuration: drive mounting

["Thomas O'Dowd" <tom@example.com>]

Ximian Setup Tools doesn't look too bad. Have a read of the
blurb at

	http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/xst-devel.html

and also some of the latest screen shots at

	http://primates.ximian.com/~chema/xst/

Click on the shares icon for the section on managing fstabs (called imports)

Haven't used it myself, but it does look pretty decent and easy to
use as well as easy to revert changes. I used linuxconf once when
I first installed linux and broke networking. Never touched it since.

Tom.

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 06:07:37PM -0700, Marlo Rocci wrote:
> 
> > The point is I want to be a user; not a sysadmin.
> 
> Microsoft spent millions to find out the exact same thing.  Most end users
> want point and click solutions to configuration issues, and at this stage of
> the development of linux, I think they're entitled.  What I am seeking is to
> what extent has linux progressed in that direction.  The impression I am
> getting from the users is that I shouldn't even be asking the question, and
> I should be happy with editing text files.
> 
> So to bring this thread back to it's origin, here's the question I'm putting
> to the group:
> 
> What Linux configuration tools are there (I'm already aware of Linuxconf and
> Webmin)?
> 
> Specifcally I'm looking for tools for local and network drive mounting. I've
> been trying to get linuxconf to mount the network shares, but I know I'm
> missing something.  I can get the share working manually, so I know the
> shares are working.  I can probably hack away at fstab to get it to work,
> but the question that keeps occuring to me is why would I have to on an
> operating system that been around this long.
> 
> Are there any projects out there to bring hardware and networking
> configurations under a coordinated program of some kind?
> 
> 
> 

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