[macosx-unix] Re: NFS mount in the Finder

[George Georgalis]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:25:41AM -0500, Marco Scoffier wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:02:18AM -0500, Robert W. Place wrote:
>>Press Appl-K to set up a network drive while in the finder and the
>>syntax is as follows:
>>
>>nfs://servername/sharename
>>
>
>Hi Robert,
>
>Thanks.
>
>I failed to mention that I tried this also but I get a failed to connect
>to server because the name or password is incorrect.  This is using
>exactly the same address and user which works flawlessly from the
>commandline...  and nfs doesn't use usernames, just IP's for
>verification (which is why I prefered to use the old appletalk, even
>thought the passwords are in cleartext).

I've had that problem too. My conclusion, Tiger cannot mount Linux NFS
partitions (through the finder command-k interface), but it has no problem
with a FreeBSD NFS server.

// George


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