[macosx-unix] NFS mount in the Finder

Marco Scoffier marco at metm.org
Wed Feb 1 12:04:49 EST 2006


Thanks for these great leads.

I am defn. happier on the command line, just not too used to the OSX
specialness.  I've got meetings until tonight, but will let you all know
of my progress.

-- 
Marco

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:43:29AM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote:
>Marco Scoffier <marco at metm.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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).
>
>nidump -r /mounts / >/tmp/mounts
>$EDITOR /tmp/mounts
>sudo niload -r /mounts / </tmp/mounts
>sudo kill -HUP `cat /var/run/automountd.pid`
>
>For example:
>
>$ nidump -r /mounts /
>{
>  "name" = ( "mounts" );
>  CHILDREN = (
>    {
>      "type" = ( "nfs" );
>      "dir" = ( "/home" );
>      "opts" = ( "rw,nosuid,nodev" );
>      "name" = ( "hostname:/path/name" );
>    }
>  )
>}
>$ 
>
>-Jan
>
>-- 
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