nfsstat -m Will show you the NFS version being used
Edit the opensolaris servers "/etc/inet/nfs" file to only allow NFS3 # Sets the maximum version of the NFS protocol that will be registered # and offered by the server. The default is 4. #NFS_SERVER_VERSMAX=4 NFS_SERVER_VERSMAX=3 <= add this line You may need to restart the service svcadm restart svc:/network/nfs/server:default I do not know the answers to your other questions Brian Foshee wrote, On 10/28/08 10:12: > When i apple-K, i use nfs://192.168.1.111/shared which is the sharepoint for > my share. I also try /home/brian which is my user home folder, but still get > the 'incorrect username or password' message. I can also use automount, and > it recognizes the NFS server, but the folder comes up as an invalid alias. > > is there anyway to distinguish between using NFSv4 and NFSv3 (or lower)? I > know i can get NFSv3 to work when connecting my mac to my Ubuntu machine, but > i always had problems with NFSv4. Is there a way to make sure i'm using v3 > to connect? I think it will get rid of the problems. > > Also, in ubuntu there is an option on NFS to have it use an insecure port > (which the mac uses) and this is the only way to get it to work. Is there an > option to turn on with SXCE to turn the secure port off? Am i explaining > that correctly? I know i always have to use the -insecure option when > creating an NFS share on ubuntu for it to allow my mac to connect. > > I am no expert at all on this, which is why i'm asking in here. I read the > man page on sxce about the sharemgr but have not been able to get it working > still. And many tutorials assume prior in-depth knowledge of the > innerworkings of solaris, of which i do not know. I am slowly working it out > but i'm just looking for any kind of tutorial that might go from a-z on > setting up NFS and getting it to work with mac os x.5. > > thanks. >