We have reason to believe that on Mon Oct 28 Stephen Hocking wrote: > > Does anyone know the incantations necessary to enable NFS exporting under OSX? > I'd like to mount some of my OSX stuff on a Linux box, and NFS seems to be a > straight- forward way of doing this. > > Stephen >
Before I start, I should mention that I've only done this once, and I did it by muddling my way through. I'm no expert on OSX and NFS. But this is what I did and it worked for me. In /etc/hostconfig, set 'RPCSERVER=-YES-' In NetInfo (I'm sure you can use either niutil or NetInfo Manager...I used NetInfo Manager) create the directory /config/nfsd and add an arguments property. You can set arguments blank, but I use '-t -u -n 3' because I have a very low usage level. Also in NetInfo, create /exports. Under /exports, create a directory for each export you want to make. The name property of each directory is the directory you're exporting, (e.g. '/exports/foobar'). Create a clients property and give it a list of the clients that can connect (I never got this working with a network such as 192.168.1.0/24 or 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0, so I'm not sure how you do that). Also create an opts property. I don't know what are the valid options...I've seen a few references to look in the exports man page, but you apparently don't get one unless you get OSX Server. Setting it blank works for my needs. Start up portmapper, if it isn't already running, with '/System/Library/StartupItems/Portmap/Portmap start', and start the NFS server with '/System/Library/StartupItems/NFS/NFS start'. When you update the exports list, use 'killall -HUP mountd' to tell the NFS server to re-read the export list. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
