[macosx-unix] NFS mount in the Finder

[pete wright]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 10:56:23AM -0500, Marco Scoffier wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> A continuation of the previous post searching for some way to have a
> remote disk automount in OS 10.4...
> 
> Set up NFS on the server.  I can mount the disk perfectly from the
> Terminal "mount_nfs <remote> <mount-point>".  I can ls the contents of
> the remote disk from the Terminal.  As soon as I mount the remote disk,
> however, the mount point (which had been just an empty folder)
> disappears completely from the finder, making the remote disk
> inaccessible from the Finder though it is perfectly visible using Unix
> commands in the Terminal.
> 
> I tried making an entry in the NetInfo manager to have the NFS
> automount, but what an awfull cryptic application.  I have no idea if
> the entry is correct (give me a text file please).
> 
> Also tried fiddling with Automator --> Run Shell Script to simply run
> the mount_nfs and umount commands, this works but as with the command
> line no Remote disk in the Finder.
> 
> I have had to change what is a relatively simple setup 3 times now
> because of random semi-documented changes in subsequent versions of OSX.
> If any of you have any tips, or know of a list better suited for these
> kinds of questions I am all ears...

hmm..we automount all sorts of stuff here on 10.3 and 10.4. Do you have
an /etc/auto.map file or anything like that?  i did not personally set
this up, but it looks like we are running as such:

%ps axuww | grep auto
root     229   0.0  0.2    29472    812  ??  Ss   Thu08PM   0:15.95
/usr/sbin/automount -f -m /net /etc/auto.map -mnt /private/net
<snipped some long lines>
%

our /etc/auto.map file looks as so:

mountpoint	server:/exported/volume


HTH

-pete

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