MacOS X Panther can´t mount SuSE 9.1 NFS directory

cecilcosta · 01-06-2005, 06:29 AM

I have a SuSE 9.1 sharing a directory, so I can share with every Linux distribution. Now I have one client that is a Mac OS X (10.3.7) and I created a directory with "sudo mkdir /server" and I´m trying to mount with "sudo mount 192.168.1.1:/var/directory" and it doesn´t mount it. What can it be?
thank you,
Eduardo Campos

Cedrik · 01-06-2005, 07:55 AM

On your Suse server, set the /etc/exports like this :
say your osx box is 192.168.1.2

# insecure option allow client to connect with port > 1024)
/var/directory 192.168.1.2(rw,insecure)

restart nfs server, portmap, then on mac osx :
From the Finder do command+k and give the server adress :
nfs://192.168.1.1/var/directory

Now look at your desktop, an icon should be here which is the mounted nfs share

cecilcosta · 01-08-2005, 05:34 AM

Thank you! It Worked! But now how can I syncronize my Mac OS X users with my Linux users an groups? I mean I have a lot of users that are in a lot of diferent groups, how can I say to Mac OS x that a user has an id, and belongs to some groups with some ids?
thank you,
Eduardo Campos

Cedrik · 01-08-2005, 05:59 AM

Add user with System Preferences and edit them with netinfo manager to change settings like uid,
gid, shell, home directory...