[PLUG] MacOS X as a NFS server?

[alan]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 dgc at easystreet.com wrote:

> 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.

The Linux box is the client, not the server.  /etc/exports is only used by 
the server.

> 
> 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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