[Madlug] mount_nfs on Mac

[John G. Heim]

I'm logged into the Mac as root via ssh.  I would think root would have 
permission to do anything like in linux/unix.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vincent Colombo" <vcolombo at vincentcolombo.com>
To: "John G. Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
Cc: <madlug at madisonlinux.org>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Madlug] mount_nfs on Mac


> Does the /staff/jheim directory exist on the client side, and do you have
> read/write permissions to the directory? You could also try doing:
>
> sudo mount_nfs  -vvv nfs1:/staff/jheim /staff/jheim
>
> If your user account does not have proper permissions to the local 
> directory
> that should allow you to mount it, assuming your account on the Mac side 
> has
> admin privs.
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:10 PM, John G. Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:
>
>> I'm having trouble mounting an nfs volume on a Mac running leopard. I am
>> pretty sure it should work because I can do the exact same thing from a
>> linux machine and it works. I even tried switching the IP addresses of 
>> the
>> Mac and the linux machine to make sure that the NFS server wasn't kicking
>> me
>> out based on IP. Here's what mount_nfs says:
>>
>> # mount_nfs  -vvv nfs1:/staff/jheim /staff/jheim
>> mount nfs1:/staff/jheim on /staff/jheim
>> mount flags: 0x0
>> 144.92.166.5 tcp, fh 32
>> 0394001200000002000a000000bb7881698877db000a000000000002
>> 1eb85d29
>> NFS options: 0x1000200
>> fg,retrycnt=1,vers=3,hard,nointr,noresvport,conn,locks,no
>>
>> locallocks,negnamecache,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,dsize=8192,readahead=16,nordirpl
>>
>> us,nodumbtimer,timeout=10,retrans=10,maxgroups=16,acregmin=5,acregmax=60,acdirmi
>> n=5,acdirmax=60,sec=sys (1)
>> mount_nfs: /staff/jheim: Permission denied
>> #
>>
>>
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