[PLUG] MacOS X as a NFS server?

[alan]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Eric Harrison wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, alan wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Eric Harrison wrote:
> >
> >> 
> >> Anyone here using MacOS X as a NFS server to Linux clients?
> >> 
> >> I have one school who has a MacOS X file server and they are trying to 
> >> mount the home directories off it to Linux clients. The NFS mount works
> >> fine, but KDE & GNOME refuse to run - spewing out NFS file locking errors.
> >
> >Is nfslockd running on the OS X box?
> 
> No nfslockd that I could find.  nfsd & nfsoid (IIRC) where the only two
> that I found and both where running.
> 
> >There used to be some weird incompatibility between BSD and Linux for NFS.  
> >It has been years since I had to deal with it.
> 
> When [MacOS X|Darwin] & nfs searchs on google turned up nothing of interest,
> I did a query on BSD. One of the first links I hit mentioned that MacOS X
> uses the Mach kernel, not the BSD kernel...

The daemons should be the same.

I will check into it.