Re: OS X as an NFS client

2008-08-26 Thread Johan SANCHEZ
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:15:20 -0400
Brian Curran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have OpenBSD 4.3 configured as an NFS server. portmap=YES and  
 nfs_server=YES are both in /etc/rc.conf.local. My exports file has a  
 single line: /share 10.0.1.3. /share is chmodded 777.
 
 I can mount the NFS share from my OS X (10.4.9) box with 'mount_nfs - 
 P hostname:/share /mnt'. (The -P flag causes mount_nfs to use a  
 reserved socket port number.) I would like to be able to mount the  
 share through the Finder's GUI, which provides no means of passing  
 flags to mount_nfs.
 
 If I understand the man page correctly, it is possible to pass the -n  
 flag to mountd on OpenBSD and no longer require clients make mount  
 requests from reserved ports. If I manually kill mountd and start it  
 with the -n flag (it shows up in ps -aux as mountd -n), I'm still  
 not able to mount the share from OS X without using the -P flag. I  
 receive the error mount_nfs: /mnt: Permission denied.
 
 I've also played around with maproot and mapall, thinking the  
 permission denied error could be related to users, but any  
 combination of these options and user options always yielded the same  
 result: the -P flag made the difference.
 
 Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi,
you can edit your fstab file then load it using 
niload / /etc/fstab 
Cheers



OS X as an NFS client

2008-08-25 Thread Brian Curran
I have OpenBSD 4.3 configured as an NFS server. portmap=YES and  
nfs_server=YES are both in /etc/rc.conf.local. My exports file has a  
single line: /share 10.0.1.3. /share is chmodded 777.


I can mount the NFS share from my OS X (10.4.9) box with 'mount_nfs - 
P hostname:/share /mnt'. (The -P flag causes mount_nfs to use a  
reserved socket port number.) I would like to be able to mount the  
share through the Finder's GUI, which provides no means of passing  
flags to mount_nfs.


If I understand the man page correctly, it is possible to pass the -n  
flag to mountd on OpenBSD and no longer require clients make mount  
requests from reserved ports. If I manually kill mountd and start it  
with the -n flag (it shows up in ps -aux as mountd -n), I'm still  
not able to mount the share from OS X without using the -P flag. I  
receive the error mount_nfs: /mnt: Permission denied.


I've also played around with maproot and mapall, thinking the  
permission denied error could be related to users, but any  
combination of these options and user options always yielded the same  
result: the -P flag made the difference.


Any help would be much appreciated.

-Brian