Linux NFS and Mac OS X

[Frazld]

I recently started playing around with this and had a few problems:

First was connecting the Mac to the NFS share. I could not do it from the Finder and was forced to command line it. At first I was trying the mount command with no switches. Didn't work. I finally got it to mount with the "-t nfs" switch.

Second was permissions. I could now mount the share but I was getting permission denied errors when I tried to access it. I finally found some doc's on UID (Unique Identifiers?) and found out that Mac's start their UID's at 500 while Linux starts at 1000. I had an account set up on both machines using the same login name. When I tried to access the Linux box with the Mac one I am assuming Linux was trying to ID me as the same user in its user db. I elimated the Linux user of the same name and Voila!! It worked. I now have a nice share point on my desktop in the Mac environment that I can drag files to.

Of note: Another friend of mine copied a bunch of mp3's over to the share and was able to access them through iTunes flawlessly. Cool!!

So, if someone else has tried this and has a better solution or a correction to some of my points above I would appreciate it. Especially if they have got the mount to work in Finder. Thanks.

[SWFan]

I'm the friend Frazld referred to, and yes my NFS share has been working great accessing it from an iMac and an iBook (Airport).

The NFS commands in Linux required nothing special outside of what we had found in the NFS HOWTO documentation. The problems came when trying to mount them in OSX. As of yet we found no way to mount the share in OSX using any of the GUI components (including a program called NFSManager). Finally we went for mounting it using OSX's terminal mode and it worked. Some of the documentation on the Mac side I had seen indicated that the mount would not show up on the desktop, however on both my Macs the mount does appear on the desktop and in the finder and you can drag and drop files as if it were a local drive/directory.