NFS issue with OSX (not lion) and NV+

sphardy wrote:
That's interesting - I've had chance to take a look and I take back some of my previous comments. My apologies for the incorrect information

Apologies accepted ;) And no offense taken.. thanks for investing time and effort in this :)

In the past I've never had success mounting NFS shares via finder but that did not surprise me due to the different way in which NFS works vs AFP & CIFS and that manual and automounting has always worked as expected and what I actually wanted. I therefore have always presumed mounting NFS shares via Finder is just not a supported option. While NFS servers are still not automatically detected by Finder as CIFS and AFP servers are, it does now seem possible to mount nfs shares via cmd+k - wonder if that is a recent enhancement/fix in OSX? (I'm running 10.6.8 ) Or maybe I just screwed up when originally looking at this a looong time ago

I'm also running 10.6.8, and have tried to mount NFS at 10.6.7 also, but there were no differences. I've just recently got the NV+ and before that i've never had reason to mount NFS, so i really wouldn't know whether it was supposed to work before 10.6.7 :)

So in finder: CMD+K -> nfs://server/share, results in "server" being listed under Shared items and the nfs share appearing as a mounted volume for that server. The share, by default, gets mounted at /Volumes/share, /Volumes being the default finder mount point for all protocols

True, but the interesting thing is dat the AFP and CIFS shares are being displayed as Jochem_8TB (which is the name of the NAS) and the NFS share appears as 10.0.0.8 (which is the IP adress of the NAS).

So back to your issue, the above discovery suggests you are hitting a permissions issues so what permissions are set for the share? Go to the Advanced Options tab for the share setup and check for the following My guess is that your setup in Frontview has Share Folder Owner: <same name as share> Share Folder Group: nogroup Share Folder Everyone Rights: none <- Have you changed this? The above settings would result in the same symptoms as you're seeing.

I'll check this when i get home in about two hours, but i'd say it's set as this right now:

Share folder owner: admin
Share folder group: nogroup (since i've made no groups in addition to the 'users', which is the standard group.

Share folder owner rights: <not editable>
Share folder group rights: (did not change the standard setting)
Share folder everyone rights: (did not change)

Below these fields there's an option to grant acces tot specific hosts, which are my macbook pro and the one from my roommate. (both have fixed IP's in the network, set up in the router)
Then there's just one setting left: in the upper right corner of the screen there's an option for 'standard acces' or something similar to that, I've set this to 'disabled' and thus granting only acces (whether it is read or write) to specific hosts (the two i've described above)

Thanks again, and in about 2 hours i'll post the settings when i've checked them :)