[macosx-unix] passing nfs mount options in finder

[Pete Wright]

thanks jesse!  so yea, using netinfo for static mounts works for sure on
our end.  the problem is our current work flow has the users (editors
who are not techincal) mounting nfs volumes via the finder.  static
mounts unfortunalty are not an option due to the sheer number of nfs
volumes we have here...

-pete

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:48:50AM -0400, Jesse Callaway wrote:
> Well that's Leopard... You can get this effect using the 'net' option
> in Tiger. The access-time mounting is cool. It's not so cool when you
> have mounted and you lose the connection. It's quite slow to timeout,
> but on the good side it's clean and doesn't crash... just get this
> dumb message when Finder figures out that the volume's not there
> anymore.
> 
> In my setup, I went into Netinfo mgr and have the following
> 
> /mounts
> 
> Property :: Value
> name :: raidbox.localdomain:/c/home/jesse
> type :: nfs
> opts :: net
> 
> opts can have multiple values listed under it, for all the
> fstab-looking c-s-v options + the mac 'net' option
> 
> -jesse
> 
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Place, Robert (IT)
> <Robert.Place at morganstanley.com> wrote:
> > Mac OS X also runs amd by default. I find setting up the configs for that is best as it will only try and mount when you try to access it and if you stop accessing it will automatically unmount it for you. This is especially handy on laptops.
> >
> >  Man amd for more details or have a look here for some good info on:
> >
> >  http://jonathan.tron.name/articles/2008/01/26/automount-shared-directory-on-leopard
> >
> >
> >  Robert Place, Executive Director
> >  Morgan Stanley | Technology
> >  750 Seventh Avenue, 12th Floor | New York, NY  10019
> >  Phone: +1 212 762-2392
> >  Robert.Place at morganstanley.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  -----Original Message-----
> >  From: macosx-unix-bounces at lesmuug.org [mailto:macosx-unix-bounces at lesmuug.org] On Behalf Of Jesse Callaway
> >  Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 10:37 AM
> >  To: Pete Wright
> >  Cc: macosx-unix at lesmuug.org
> >  Subject: Re: [macosx-unix] passing nfs mount options in finder
> >
> >  On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
> >  > hey all - does anyone know how pass nfs mount options when connecting to
> >  >  an NFS volume in 10.4?  the issue i'm seeing is that when i connect to a
> >  >  nfs volume via the finder in 10.4 it defaults to UDP, but i'd like to
> >  >  use TCP connections.  from a command like i'd do a:
> >  >  mount_nfs -T server:/export /mnt/point
> >  >
> >  >  can't seem to figure out a way to do that via the finder though...
> >  >
> >  >  -p
> >  >
> >  >  --
> >  >  ~~oO00Oo~~
> >  >  Peter Wright
> >  >  pete at nomadlogic.org
> >  >  www.nomadlogic.org/~pete
> >  >  310.869.9459
> >
> >
> >  Hey Pete,
> >
> >  To get all the options, I had to use Directory Services. I don't think
> >  you can pass any options in the apple-k finder dialog. You can pass it
> >  all the ... ah fer chrissake... Sorry it's in Netinfo Manager
> >  application which... I don't know why it's two seperate utilities.
> >  Anyway... I think you can only pass options via the shell command you
> >  have below, or from setting it up in /mounts in Netinfo Manager.
> >  If you play with the /etc files you can use the automount.conf and
> >  fstab. But I never got that to work for me.
> >  I'm sure you know all this, but anyway this is all I know about the topic.
> >
> >  -jesse
> >
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