NFSManger vs. mount

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Title: NFSManger vs. mount
Post by: tygre on November 26, 2023, 10:46:22 PM
Hi all!

I have set my network, a NFS share, and my NeXTstation and everything works fine except that I cannot get NFSManger to behave :)

When I mount the NFS share from the command line as:
mount -t nfs CHAMSAE:/media/Archives /Net/ArchivesThe NFS share /Net/Archives is created as expected and I can browse its content (located on CHAMSAE in /media/Archives).

When I use NFSManager, I fill in the same info. and the GIU shows a line like:
CHAMSAE    /media/Archives    /Net/CHAMSAE/media/ArchivesBut when I double-click on /Net/CHAMSAE, nothing happens except a busy pointer for a while. (I also tried cd into it from the command line, it freezes for a little while and then replies "No such file or directory".)

I read these posts (1 (https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/NeXT/UsingNFS.html), 2 (https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=3598), 3 (https://blog.pizzabox.computer/), and 4 (https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=2642.msg26703#msg26703)) but I'm still unsure of the best solution. I don't understand why the mount command line works but not NFSManager. I'm not sure if I should modify fstab and what I should put in it because the syntax seems different from that of the mount command line.

Am I missing something with NFSManager? What would be the simplest and safest solution to have the share mounted with every boot?

Thanks in advance!
Tygre
Title: Re: NFSManger vs. mount
Post by: Nitro on November 27, 2023, 12:04:54 AM
I used this informative article (https://www.jonandnic.com/2020/08/28/nextstep-openstep-nfs-file-share-with-a-raspberry-pi/) when I was setting up my Raspberry Pi NFS server (https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=5178) a while back. Hopefully that will help to get things working for you.
Title: Re: NFSManger vs. mount
Post by: tygre on November 27, 2023, 07:24:39 AM
Thanks Nitro! :)

I missed that page! It explains exactly my problem: "On NeXTStep 3.3, the NFSManager.app GUI was not able to successfully mount the share" and suggests to use /etc/rc.local...

Off I go try that ;D
Title: Re: NFSManger vs. mount
Post by: tygre on December 11, 2023, 02:49:47 PM
PS. Everything works like a charm using mount in rc.local 8)
Title: Re: NFSManger vs. mount
Post by: fstark on December 30, 2023, 05:39:28 PM
Trying to have the NFS server working. I enabled ethernet (twisted pair) and have my home directory as the shared folder. I tried to follow the instructions in filesharing.howto.txt, but it says (quite logically) that the server 'nfs' is not found.

How do I specify the embeded NFS server? I feel that I am missing something obvious there...

(oops, wrong thread, will post in the Previous mega-thread)

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