I'm trying to make an NFS connection between my NeXT and a Mac, running Snow Leopard. I've tried a commercial application (NFS Manager) and Apple's Disk Utility but I'm unable to make a connection with either one. There's no problem firing up the NeXT NFS Manager and specifying mount points. The 2 Mac apps can see those mount points. I don't get any meaningful error messages. It may be a UID issue on either or both machines, but I can't tell. Anyone had any experience in making such a connection? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks, ******** Phillips
I have successfully NFS exported shares from some version of Mac OS X / Mac OS X Server and mounted them on a NeXT. However, my experience has been that Mac OS X is not a very good server platform. I remember NFS support in particular was very flaky, things kept breaking for unexplained reasons, and eventually would work again etc. and the workarounds required changed from one version of Mac OS X to the next. I am now exporting my NFS shares from a Linux server, and they work like magic (also on my NeXTs).
Here are some questions, they may or may not be much help to you:
1) Are you accessing the Mac OS X NFS share with a domain name or an IP address? If the former, how is the NeXT resolving the domain name into the IP address?
2) Is the IP address allocated to the Mac OS X computer via DHCP or statically? If via DHCP and the IP address changes when the lease is renewed, the NFS connection will break at that point (I've had this problem and it took me some time to figure out).
Thanks for your reply. I'm sorry I wasn't clear about what I'd like to do. I should have said I want the Mac to be a client to the NeXT server. On the NeXT, under NFSManager, I've exported /rlp, my home directory, without any limitations. It's wide open for any operation to all users. When I try to mount it from the Mac I get the message:
"The operating system could not perform the selected mount operation. Please verify that you have the necessary administrator credentials"
From the Mac I refer to the NeXT mount with its IP address, 191.168.1.192/rlp. I'm not using DHCP.
I hope this clarifies things.
******** Phillips
Quote from: "poppasf"It's wide open for any operation to all users. When I try to mount it from the Mac I get the message:
"The operating system could not perform the selected mount operation. Please verify that you have the necessary administrator credentials"
From the Mac I refer to the NeXT mount with its IP address, 191.168.1.192/rlp. I'm not using DHCP.
It may be a problem with the port number the OS X NFS client uses. The old Sun/BSD NFS code in NeXTstep probably refuses NFS connections from unknown ports. I don't have a NeXT machine here in the office (actually I do, but it's not installed at the moment...), but you might try the
-o resvport option for mount. The OS X man page for mount_nfs has some details on this.
i'm in the same ship, with a 10.6 client trying to mount a ns 3.3 server. and reading man mount_nfs i found the -mntudp option. i will try that tomorrow.