[opensuse] Co-existing in a dynamic network Howto?

Well I didn't get a reply so guess I will submit my query again and hope some knowledgeable Linux/SuSE guru will notice it this time.. ;-) Thanks in advance for any advice and help offered...

Marc..

Hello - I could use some advise on how to configure our SuSE systems to work in a dynamic network. I have several computers running SuSE and use fstab to do a number of automounts of file systems that exist on other computers within our network. Trouble is that these other computers may come and go and I do not have control over the exact configuration of the network at any given time.

I use fstab to define what I want automounted, so as to be able to run some scripts that access available remote file systems during boot up. (That is one reason why I cannot use the KNetworkManager as it is not active until after boot up has taken place and a second is that these scripts must be ran during the boot up process so as to set up some other server configurations automatically and not wait until a user has logged in.)

Trouble is two fold. during boot up, if the automount process finds one computer that does not exist, it times out and seems to give up on mounting any of the rest of the computers in the list. I would like to get around this without having to endure a long timeout for each failed mount attempt also so that the boot up process can be accomplished in a reasonable amount of time. And, after bootup, this timeout problem also seems to plague the SuSE menu (in the kicker bar, i.e. the menus displayed when one clicks on the SuSE logo) When I click on the SuSE menu launcher, it seems to want to do an automount of all the file systems defined in the fstab file and this can result in a horrendously long time out process (for each failed attempt to automount a remote file system) during which the entire kicker becomes unresponsive and frozen.

I probably am overlooking some simple configuration setting but so far have not been able to find a method of getting around these two issues. Any help and suggestions would be much appreciated! (Am mostly running SuSE 11.1 with KDE 3.5)

Marc...




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