nfs mount problems os x

[Michael George]

I had problems with our system not working right, too.  However, I 
could get a manifestation when trying to NFS mount a tree from YDL to 
Linux.

Now I have things working fine.  I can mount NFS volumes from YDL to 
linux locally and over a VPN and to the OSX box I tried.

The two things which have changed are:
	1. I upgraded to kernel 2.4.20-rc1-ben0 and built it myself with NFS 3 
support (must be NFS *3* support built in!)
	2. The OSX system was upgraded to 10.2.2.

Now things seem to work fine.  I'm pretty sure that I tested the new 
kernel w/ NFS3 support and it worked okay from Linux, but OSX 10.2.1 
(or is that OS X.2.1?) didn't like it.  Now both machines at my fingers 
are 10.2.2, so I can't test it...

Try those upgrades and lemme know if you still have trouble.  I'll tell 
you what I have setup here that works...

On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 11:42  PM, cmustard wrote:

> I know this is off topic, sorry. Hopefully no one wil be really pissed 
> off.
>
> Yellow dog is working great, no major issues, the problem i'm having at
> the moment is getting mac os x to mount a nfs volume from a openbsd 
> server.
> YDL can see it and mount it fine, so i know it's offered and available
> correctly.
>
>> From my understanding mac os x supports nfs mounts natively.
> running the following command from mac os x against the openbsd server.
> %showmount -e 168.X.X.X (openbsd server address)
> /share/nfs 168.X.X.X
>
> %portmapper is running, mountd is running,
> rpcinfo -p 168.x.x.x (local mac os x)
> 100000	2	tcp	111	portmapper
> 100000  2	udp	111	portmapper
>
> I can issue the mount command:
> %mount -t nfs 168.x.x.x:/server/nfs /private/mnt
>
> and mac osx will mount this filesystem and show that it is mounted
> via the `mount' command, but it is inexcessible and nothing is really 
> there.
> If i try to access them i get "the alias 'mnt' could not be opened,
> because the original item cannot be found".
>
> I have turned to the you guys because you are usually very advanced 
> powerpc
> users as well, (or where in the past, before Linux :-)).
> I am very frustrated, linux mounted this easily, with very little 
> effort.
>
> This is supposed to be native to os x, and a lot of this is 
> undocumented as
> far as i can see, probably looking in the wrong places.
> Any and all help very much appreciated
>
> Again, i am very sorry to trouble the YDL list with this, i will 
> refrain
> from doing this again.
>
> -mUs
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-Michael George
  Senior Engineer, Software Development
  Aurora Video Systems, Inc.