[KLUG Members] NFS across platforms...and not!

Chris Goron members@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:26:13 -0500


The "-P" option seems to do the trick for me (X-->Linux anyway):

mount -o "-P" host:/mnt/exported /mnt/share

This is mounting a Linux export from a Mac OS X client. Never tried the
other way around if that's what you trying.

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 19:43, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> So after this weekend+ of fooling around with NFS  and sharing data all over 
> the home/office network, you'de think I have enough, right? 
> 
> Well, sorta...
> 
> Now that I've got it working here, I want to get it working on OS-X, between
> OS-X machines, and between OS-X and Linux hosts.
> 
> We had a presentation on OS-X recently, and I asked if this was possible, and
> got a rather unequivocal answer of "yes" in response. Reading the Apple OS-X
> literature, you'de think this is the most trivial thing in the world, but 
> aparently it is not.
> 
> I've tried many (not all, but many, it's getting there!) of the things that
> were suggested on OS-X, and have not had much success, but have collected a 
> nice crop of interesting error messages, many of which are actually rather 
> misleading.
> 
> If someone on this mailing list has actual experience with OS-X and NFS, and
> running NFS exports between Os-X and Linux, I would like to hear from you.
> 
> 							Regards,
> 							---> RGB <---
> 
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