From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 7 23:52:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F205316A418 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 23:52:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE6113C44B for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 23:52:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay12.apple.com (relay12.apple.com [17.128.113.53]) by mail-out4.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3B011E2CB76; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:52:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay12.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay12.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id B728428094; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:52:40 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 11807135-a11e5bb000000b09-d6-4782bb4861e7 Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay12.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 8FD142804D; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:52:40 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <872A6988-2C89-4AF1-99E6-57B744C799CB@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: Konrad Heuer In-Reply-To: <20080103073138.G99137@gwdu60.gwdg.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:52:40 -0800 References: <20080103073138.G99137@gwdu60.gwdg.de> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OSX NFS-Server && FreeBSD NFS Client X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:52:42 -0000 On Jan 2, 2008, at 10:50 PM, Konrad Heuer wrote: > I observe a serious problem with NFS exports from a Mac OS X 10.4 > server to FreeBSD 6.2 NFS clients (itself running on DELL PowerEdge > 2850 server hardware). > > We use the StorNext distributed file system in which FreeBSD cannot > participate straightly (sorry to say). But OS X can do using the > XSAN software from Apple, so we integrated the OS X server into the > StorNext environment. > > We want OS X to NFS export the filesystems to FreeBSD clients, which > by itself for example act as SMB servers using Samba 3.0.x. You really don't want to export a filesystem which itself is being mounted remotely. If you want to provide SMB filesharing for these files, run Samba on the OS X machine(s) directly. -- -Chuck