Re: Accessing NFS from OS X. Was: NFS how to

healyzh_at_aracnet.com
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: 17 Jun 2004 04:10:55 GMT

News Reader <nomail@noemail.vms> wrote:
 Dunno. The example in the manual suggests that you still can:

> TCPIP> MAP "/vmsdisk" DSA301:
> TCPIP> ADD EXPORT "/vmsdisk/brown/test" /HOST=ultra

Ah, I think I see my problem, I had previously done it as part of the MAP,
and now it looks like I would need to do it as part of the ADD EXPORT.

> >[snip] The irritating thing is,
> >with Unix underneath these days NFS should work better on Mac OS X
> >than it does (ISTR that it worked quite well on NeXTstep and OPENSTEP).

> This is in danger of getting OT for COV, but what's so funky about
> Apple's NFS in OS X that its causing you grief? Why does it not
> "just work" like yaunix(tm)?

While to a user Mac OS X appears to be Unix, to an Administrator, there are
significant differences, espeically where networking related things are
concerned. Like NeXTstep/OPENSTEP before it, it uses the NetInfo database
to store all the info that would typically be stored in flatfiles. For an
example I can remember off the top of my head, to edit the hosts file on a
typical Unix box you'd do something like "vi /etc/hosts", but on Mac OS X
you have to do the following (I'm sure my syntax isn't quite right):

# nidump hosts > hosts.txt
# vi hosts.txt
# niload hosts < hosts.txt

It's been a while since I bothered trying to fight with NFS on it. As I
said in a previous post, it's just to much trouble, and I'll stick with
Appletalk for the time being.

                Zane

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