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

[pete wright]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 02:22:19PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
> 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.
> 

no, that's no true.  I've been mounting linux/netapp/isolan/emc/*bsd
exported nfs volumes on OSX for some time now via static mounts and
auto.map files.
-p


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