Re: NFS on Mac

It looks like OSX NFS mounts come from a high (insecure) port, where
LINUX mounts come from a low (less than 1024, secure) port.
I guess the OSX "sudo mount" command uses a low port, so it works.

It is a shame that we can't just get the OSX user mount to be
"secure".  Perhaps ask the Admin-privileged user for their
password (local, on mac) to elevate privilege and use a
secure, low port for the NFS mount.

It seems like setting up a automount, UNIX style, is still
the "correct" solution.
Keep the NFS server only accepting low ports.
Unfortunately, I have had trouble getting this to work reliably
on the Mac side.  It is close, but not exactly like the
LINUX automount setup.

                aaron

Eric Krieger wrote:
> Aaron take a look at...
> 
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031121094436907
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Aaron Birenboim <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     I tried the trick on OSX where you use the "connect to server" function
>     to connect to something like
>         nfs://192.168.1.1/scr <http://192.168.1.1/scr>
>     Then move the folder to the dock to set up an automount.
> 
>     Problem is...  when trying to connect to server, it complains
>     about a bad username/password.
>     Very strange error message for NFS, which does not use user/password
>     authentication.
> 
>     Permissions ARE open for the machine...
>       sudo mount 192.168.1.1:/scr /scr
>     works on the mac terminal.
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