Re: NFS on Mac

After allowing insecure access to the Mac, I can connect to server.
However, the only way to get to that data is through the finder.
I was unable to make an icon which would mount the server for the user.

Any other ideas on how to enable a MAC to use an NFS server
for an unsophisticated MAC user?

                      aaron

Aaron wrote:
> 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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