Troubles with NFS?

[Ben Hall]

I use XFCE 4 on Linux with home dirs NFS mounted from Solaris 8, no
problems here.


On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 06:57, Igor Karpov wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:46:31PM +0100, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > Nope, I use an NFS mounted homedir at work and have no problem.
> 
> It is completely possible. The point is that I've changed OS from 4.8 to
> 5.1 and at the same time compiled new (4.0.0) version of xfce. So I'm
> not sure where the problem lies. However, all other stuff is working
> properly (mutt, slrn, etc.) and I guess that something wrong is with
> xfce-mcs-manager - you see it _saves_ at least xfce-settings.xml, but
> cannot save other settings...
> 
> > Cheers,
> > Olivier.
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 11:33, Igor Karpov wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > I'm running xfce-4.0.0 on my desktop. It was builded from FreeBSD ports
> > > tree. While everything is OK while my home directory is local, there are
> > > some problems if it's mounted over NFS:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ** (xfce-mcs-manager:1510): WARNING **: Cannot save file /home/jc/.xfce4/settings/margins.xml: Operation not supported
> > > ** (xfce-mcs-manager:1510): WARNING **: Cannot save file /home/jc/.xfce4/settings/workspaces.xml: Operation not supported
> > > ** (xfce-mcs-manager:1512): WARNING **: Cannot save file /home/jc/.xfce4/settings/xfwm4.xml: Operation not supported
> > > 
> > > At the same time some of setting are saved successfully:
> > > 
> > > yard:/home/jc> ll .xfce4/settings/
> > > total 2
> > > -rw-------  1 jc  jc    0  3 ноя 20:56 margins.xml
> > > -rw-------  1 jc  jc    0  3 ноя 20:56 workspaces.xml
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 jc  jc  130 17 ноя 10:54 xfce-settings.xml
> > > -rw-------  1 jc  jc    0  3 ноя 20:57 xfwm4.xml
> > > 
> > > It looks like minor difference (bug?) in the code these files are saved
> > > with.
> > > 
> > > Can anybody comment this?
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > -- 
> > Olivier Fourdan - fourdan at xfce.org
> >    
> >    Interoperability is the keyword, uniformity is a dead end. 
> >    http://www.xfce.org
> > 
> > 
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