[PLUG] MacOS X as a NFS server?

[dgc at easystreet.com]

As I remember, one difference is that MacOSX by default uses a non-privileged
port for nfs, and by default Linux only wants a privileged port (or something
like that).  There's an option you can set (in /etc/exports?) that allows
non-privileged ports.

dgc

> 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.
> 
> 
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