Sharing files between Linux and OS X

IBall · 03-26-2005, 10:40 PM

Hi,

I have a desktop computer running Slackware Linux 9.1, and a Apple Powerbook running OS X 10.3. They are networked together, and both can access the internet.

I have nfs set up on the Linux Box, with a share directory that is currently shared with another linux box on my network. Is it possible to access the share directory from my Mac Laptop ? How would I go about doing this.

I have tried to use the Finder in OS X, to connect to server "nfs://192.168.1.2/home/share"

I have tried using the command in the Terminal "sudo mount_nfs 192.168.1.2:/home/share ./share" where /Users/iball/share is where I want to mount the share directory to.

I have tried using NFS Manager.

However, none of these things work. I suspect that this may be a config problem on my laptop, because the share directory is accessible from the other linux box.

Here is /etc/exports from the Linux box:

Code:

/home/share 192.168.1.1(rw,no_root_squash)     /*The other Linux Box*/
/home/share 192.168.1.4(rw,no_root_squash)     /*My Laptop*/

Here is /etc/hosts.allow

Code:

portmap: 192.168.1.1
portmap: 192.168.1.4

and here is /etc/hosts.deny

Code:

portmap:ALL

Note that my linux box is at 192.168.1.2, and that the above config files work with sharing files to the other linux box, running Mandrake 10.

Thanks in Advance
--Ian

xowl · 03-27-2005, 03:40 PM

I'd try samba in both.

btmiller · 03-27-2005, 06:12 PM

Samba is a possibility, but NFS ought to work. Do you get any error messages when you try the nfs_mount command? You can try running rpcinfo -p 192.168.1.2 from the Mac laptop (hopefully they provide rpcinfo) to see if you can make RPC connections to the Linux system.

I once had to do something like this, but it was long ago (Mac OS 10.1, when that was current) -- it took some work, but I got it set up in the end.

IBall · 03-27-2005, 10:25 PM

Thanks for your help.

I got samba to work successfuly, so I don't really need to bother with NFS anymore. I thought Samba was for file sharing with Windows machines though??

Thanks Again
--Ian

keefaz · 03-28-2005, 04:25 AM

Use the non-privileged ports (>1024) to share as NFS with the insecure option

Code:

/home/share 192.168.1.1(rw,no_root_squash,insecure)     /*The other Linux Box*/
/home/share 192.168.1.4(rw,no_root_squash,insecure)     /*My Laptop*/

Then browse to "nfs://192.168.1.2/home/share" with the Finder
works fine...

pevelius · 03-29-2005, 10:51 AM

for some reason (my stupidity?) i only get read-permission on the shared forlder (folder on linux, mounted to os x). what can i do to get rw?

keefaz · 03-29-2005, 02:09 PM

Set up user permissions in linux and osx boxes so they match

Example :

user pevelius in linux box uid is : 501
user pevelius in osx box uid is : 501

exported FS from linux is /home/pevelius as rw

You access the share in osx with <command> +k and browse to
nfs://<linux box>/home/pevelius

Now an icon appears in Desktop and you can write in the mounted folder

pevelius · 03-31-2005, 10:37 AM

i tried that (i changed my uid on linux to 501 as that is the default on os x). mounting nfs worked rw, but changing uid had some consecuenses: i couldn´t use screen, for example. so, what other problems will come and is there a smarter way to change uid so that it doesn´t affect my linux use? i changed it now with >usermod -u 501 username

keefaz · 03-31-2005, 11:51 AM

try this :

Code:

find /home/pevelius -uid 500

To set all your 500 uid files to your uid:

Code:

find /home/pevelius -uid 500 -exec chown pevelius {} \;

(run the 2nd as root)

saigiridhar · 12-20-2007, 10:36 AM

I'm having some similar such problems. I want to mount a directory in RHEL5 on MAC OS X(tiger). Help me with either nfs(I couldn't add fstab entry as no such file was there in /etc folder only fstab.hd was found) or samba(I'm ignorant of this please help from basics).

patrick295767 · 12-26-2007, 05:11 AM

http://patrick295767.pa.funpic.org/debian/howtos.htm

saigiridhar · 12-26-2007, 07:20 PM

The link File server for Linux and MAC (via nfs)(http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.p...ighlight=samba) has been mved or expired so i couldn't see what it is.Can u please post it here so that i can view it.