NFS problems, mac & linux

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004, ejbr at comcast.net wrote:
>On Wednesday 25 August 2004 02:31 pm, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Tom Wilson [mailto:twilson at mcswaincarpets.com]
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:50 AM
>> >> To: Linux tips and tricks
>> >> Subject: Re: NFS problems, mac & linux
>> >>
>> >> sudo mount -t nfs 192.168.1.102:/Volumes/Alien /mnt/alien
>> >
>> >Just for the education of the stupid out here, why would you mount
>> > this using 'sudo'?
>>
>> Because Apple users typically don't use root access directly?
>>
>> The first command I use on an OS X box is ``sudo passwd root'' to set
>> the root password, then I can have normal shell access.
>
>Huh?  I'm talking about the Linux box, not the OSX.  As I said, I don't 
>know OSX from shinola.  mount requires root, so I sudo.  
>
>Anyway, the Mac drive is formatted using UFS, I just looked and UFS is not 
>set in the kernel.  Given the latest GLSA (Gentoo, sorry), I'm about to 
>recompile a new kernel with UFS support, and I'll see if that's it.  I 
>hope so.

The drive formatting on the OS X box shouldn't matter when it's
exported (the default OS X file system could cause problems as
it's case insensitive).  I have a 120GB external firewire hard
drive on my G4 that I access via NFS from several Linux machines,
and the G4 also mounts Linux and FreeBSD file systems via NFS.

Bill
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