Re: OT Mac OS X and Etch NFS question
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 12:07 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I want to set up Mac running OS X v 10.4 as a NFS server
> so that I can have one of my Debian boxes read files from
> it on an NFS mount. Can anyone, please point me to some
> instructions on setting up OS X as an NFS server?
Paul, there are pointy-clicky things for OSX to setup NFS exports.
/Applications/Utilities/NetInfo Manager
Authenticate as an admin, or the button on the bottom of the window that
says something like: "click to to make changes" or something similar.
Then just follow the directions, the procedure is fairly trivial.
If you have the luxury of a reboot, do that. OSX will start the daemons
auto-magically. If not... I believe a command prompt and using sudo will
do fine.
To start the daemons, (I am doing all of this on memory here)
sudo /usr/sbin/portmap
sudo /sbin/nfsd -t -u -n8
Portmap is needed for most requests, nfsd actually starts the nfs
exports the switches are what I have used in the past, "-t" is for tcp,
"-u" is for udp and "-n8" is for the number to start out with. mountd is
automagically started upon reboot, but is not really needed, as far as I
know.
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