an acronym for Network File Services - a file sharing protocol
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Confounded by permissions problem on NFS share
I'm setting up an NFS server (Ubuntu) to serve files to several Macs (10.7).
The way it's set up, I can log in from any Linux client and read/write over NFS exactly as expected. (I've set up ACL ...
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Preventing filesystem from locking up when automount NFS share from VM goes away
I do a lot of web applications development, and I run a Fedora VM on my Mac to simulate the server environment. Meanwhile, I run the IDE on the Mac side, and it requires a local filesystem to make ...
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Force umount of stale NFS shares
Whenever my NFSv4 server becomes unreachable a little window pops up offering me to disconnect the affected shares.
It looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/ThuhnCG.png
If I choose to Ignore iTunes ...
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Mount NFS share in /Volumes as a drive
Ok, this might be a stupid question to ask, but trying to mount a NFS share (from a Linux machine, if it's worth anything) in a folder that resides in /Volumes never makes the share appear in Finder ...
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Can the Mac OS X nfsd be configured to listen only on a particular interface?
I'd like to configure the NFS Daemon in Mac OS X Mountain Lion such that it listens only to a particular interface. Is that possible or do I have to use firewall rules to accomplish this?
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Manual mount of NFS got permanent?
The Problem
My problem is that I have manually mounted a NFS network share on my Mac and that now the system keeps on trying to remount it and doing so it displays an annoying focused popup telling: ...
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Finder shows stale directory listings from NFS server
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 Linux server sharing files via NFSv4. I mount the share on my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.7.5. I have the NFS share set up to automount in Disk Utility with default mount ...
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Preserving mountpoint names in the Finder for NFS shares
I am mounting a number of NFS shares, with a Terminal command akin to this:
sudo mount -t nfs -o soft,resvport,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=900,retrans=3,proto=tcp,nobrowse ...
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Mac Air OS X Mountain Lion - mounting NFS “dscl” freezes system permanently
I set out to execute the following steps on OS X Mountain Lion to mount an NFS share-
create
sudo dscl . -create /Mounts/foo
sudo dscl . -create /Mounts/foo VFSLinkDir /Volumes/share
sudo dscl . ...
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Why can't I open DMG files which reside on a read-only NFS filesystem?
I've discovered a strange problem... if I have disk image files (DMGs) which reside on a read-only NFS share, I cannot open these in Mac OS X 10.7.5. The same files open fine when accessed over AFP. ...
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how to store Time Machine backups on NFS and keep metadata?
There is a Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) desktop, it stores Time Machine backups on a separate partition. Also there is an Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) server with NFS daemon running, it exports a /BACKUP disk. This ...
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Disabling lots and lots of NFS mounts based on location
I have a number of NFS automounts in my Local directory node on 10.7. I am using a laptop and when I work at home I don't have access to the servers. As a result I often get beachballing Navigation ...
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Full guide on configuring NIS/NFS on OS X 10.7?
I am trying to setup OS X 10.7 Lion to work as an a NIS/NFS client but without too much success so far.
Existing configuration that works on Ubuntu
cat /etc/yp.conf
domain uk.example.com server ...
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searching an nfs-mounted volume
Does anyone know of a GUI way to search mounted network volume without using Spotlight? We use a cluster roughly 80TB and need a client-side way of searching for files without indexing the entire ...
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Howto get Lion a working auto_home client with NIS and NFS Server
I have a working NIS/NFS server environment here, with multiple servers. One is the NIS server, that works just fine with Lion. But I can't figure out, how to get the auto home mounting working.
Do ...
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Multi user network share and resource forks
I have a scenario where multiple clients access the same NFS share, where they work with inDesign, Photoshop and such. They have problems with files and dirs going read-only (not in Terminal, though), ...
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Set Default NFS v4 when connecting from Mac OS X Lion
I have installed an NFS File Server on Ubuntu 11.10, and that is working well.
I am only able to connect to the NFS server from my Mac with this command:
mount -t nfs -o vers=4 10.0.10.26:/srv ...
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How to add a shortcut to a NFS share in Finder?
I have defined a NFS mount point in Disk Utility. The target machine is running Linux.
I don't see the machine in Finder (preferences/ shared / servers is checked)
I also can't drag the folder to the ...
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NFS mounts without automounter, which seems to grab everything
We have some NFS mounts we place in the fstab, via "vifs" which we want to manage separate of the autofs subsystem. The mounts were created in a separate location (/mnt) which should not be managed ...
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automount NFS when on specific wifi
I'd like to be able to mount an nfs NAS mount point whenever I connect to my home network and initiate an rsync to it.
I saw the post for "How can I automount afp volumes at startup? ", although there ...
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Using NFS between OSX and Ubuntu with mis-matched uids
I have a fileserver running Ubuntu 10.04 I'd like to access via NFS from my Mac running 10.6.8. Problem is, while the usernames are the same, the uids are different.
Googling suggests that the past ...
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File browser for iPad
Is there an app for the iPad that let's you view an NFS share?
It seems like File Browser lets you mount SMB shares and iFiles lets you view different cloud storage sites like Flickr and other file ...
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Unable to mount an NFS share
I'm trying to access my (Synology) NAS share through NFS and always get the same issue.
First, I activated NFS support in my NAS:
Then I set the permissions on the NAS:
My MBP has the IP ...
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Accessing events on external drive in iMovie '11 on Lion
I have my iMovie events stored on my external harddrive (located in a Synology NAS). It worked like a charm with iMovie '11 on Snow Leopard.
I then received my new MBP with Lion and the external ...
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How can I stop OS X from automatically connecting to an NFS server on startup?
I upgraded to Lion today, but was having the same problem on Snow Leopard. When I start up my Mac and login, it automatically connects to an NFS server. I know this because I see the server in Finder ...
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Does anyone have any tips or best practices for using NFS mounted directories?
Does anyone have tips for conveniently dealing with a variety of NFS mounted directories in Mac OS X?
When I drag them to the sidebar in finder they can't be renamed.
When I mounted them using ...
