From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 15 18:03:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31F7E16A4CE for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:03:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp001.bizmail.yahoo.com (smtp001.bizmail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03E8443D49 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:03:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from unknown (HELO optimator.noacks.org) (noackjr@supercrime.org@70.240.198.174 with login) by smtp001.bizmail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Dec 2004 18:03:35 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2E61621F; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:03:34 -0600 (CST) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03172-07; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:03:33 -0600 (CST) Received: from www.noacks.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B806614D; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:03:33 -0600 (CST) Received: from 69.53.57.66 (SquirrelMail authenticated user noackjr); by www.noacks.org with HTTP; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:03:33 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <7589.69.53.57.66.1103133813.squirrel@69.53.57.66> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:03:33 -0600 (CST) From: "Jon Noack" To: "Michael Hopkins, Hopkins Research" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at noacks.org cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble making NFS work with Mac OS X X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:03:36 -0000 Michael Hopkins, Hopkins Research wrote: > I keep reading that Mac OS X is very easy to get working other machines > using open standards. This is not my current experience after two > fruitless days messing about with NFS, but I am no network expert so maybe > I am missing something really obvious - or maybe it's the FreeBSD box that > is giving the problem? > > Anyway, I have tried to follow all the rules; see below. > > NFS server on a FreeBSD 5.3 box IP: 192.168.0.2 > NFS client on a Mac OS X (10.3.6) box. IP: 192.168.0.5 > > I want to export the /home directory on the server to the client using > NFS. Just a wild guess without actually reading the whole email: By default FreeBSD does not create a seperate partition for /home. /home is actually a symlink to /usr/home. From the exports(5) man page: "The pathnames must not have any symbolic links in them and should not have any "." or ".." components." Therefore you may need to export /usr/home instead of /home. This works wonderfully for me (although my clients are FreeBSD as well). Jon