Sharing stuff in /Network with NFS

[waterman]

Hi. I’ve recently been checking out these fora a few times a day because of the excellent and helpful articles I’ve read on this site. Great work, Joel or whoever else is writing the articles.

Now, down to business.

I’ve created a few sharepoints (Fonts, Music, etc…) and I’d like them to appear in the /Network directory on my network users’ systems when they log in. That is, I want them to see /Network/Music and /Network/Fonts when they navigate through that bluish globe icon at the root of the system. It seems that this would be the best way to share our company’s fonts, music, and other resources in the future across the local network.

So, to accomplish this, I set these sharepoints to share their contents via NFS (exported to World) and I set them to automount statically in the Network/XXXXX location for users in the network/root domain. I unchecked the “map blah blah to nobody” check boxes in the protocols pane.

Problem: the client computers show the names of the sharepoints when I log in (ie, I see an item called Fonts in the /Network directory), but it’s just an alias (4k in size) and it’s not pointing anywhere. Furthermore, when I type:

[code:1:8cd3971527]
showmount -e
[/code:1:8cd3971527]

in the Xserve’s terminal, I just see Users and VisualFX, the two sharepoints that I’m already exporting… the new ones are not being exported. I tried a reboot to start the NFS service over again, but that didn’t work.

Can anyone enlighten me on this? Thanks!

[waterman]

I changed the export properties to ‘client’ and specified a few clients to test that out, but I still just had the 4kb aliases with no mounting of the filesystem. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but it’s probably more trouble than it’s worth when AFP makes it so easy.

And, perhaps there’s some syntax that I don’t know of to make adding clients to the list of NFS clients easier, but adding the entries manually is not going to be practical for our uses here.

So, in light of all that, I took your other suggestion and just mounted them via AFP. It’s working just fine now. Thanks!

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