[NBLUG/talk] UNIX file sharing with an eMac

[Peter Lutz]

Thanks, Eric.
I've got SMB working, and I downloaded NFSManager.  I'll work on it a
bit more.
Peter
talk-request at nblug.org wrote:
> From: Eric Eisenhart <eric at nblug.org>
> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] UNIX file sharing with an eMac
> To: "General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions,
> 	etc." <talk at nblug.org>
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> On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 10:50:25AM -0800, Peter Lutz wrote:
> 
>>Has anyone succeeded in exporting a user's directory to other systems,
>>such as a Linux box?  I have made an /etc/exports file that contains:
>>/Users/myusername       host1(rw)       host2(rw)       host3(rw)
> 
> 
> Mac OS X is weird when it comes to this kind of stuff.  For the most part,
> it doesn't use most files in /etc.  What is really used is the netinfo
> database.  You need to put that configuration into the proper part of the
> netinfo database.  On MacOSX, there's "NetInfo Manager" under "Utilities"
> that lets you edit things.  I don't think the way to set up NFS exporting is
> obvious there, however.  If you were running the server version of OSX,
> there'd be a tool to help out.  I've never used it, but there's a utility to
> help out on the non-server version of OSX:
> http://www.bresink.com/osx/NFSManager.html
> 
> 
>>On the Linux box I added this line to my /etc/fstab file:
>>emac:/Users/myusername  /mnt/emac  nfs 
>>rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,noauto,users 0   0
>>
>>When I try to mount /mnt/emac, I get the following error message:
>>mount: emac:/Users/myusername failed, reason given by server: Permission 
>>denied
>>
>>Do I need to do more?  I did reboot the emac a couple of times.
>>OS X 10.3.7
> 
> 
> It's probably a lot easier to set up SMB based access, actually.  Just turn
> on "Windows Sharing" on the OSX box (in "Sharing" inside System
> Preferences), then on the linux box, put something like this into
> /etc/fstab:
> //emac/Users/myusername /mnt/emac smbfs username=myusername,password=mypassword,uid=localusername,rw 0 0
> 
> Run smbclient first; you can use that to find out exactly what that first
> part should be.
> 
> (or instead of the username and password straight in /etc/fstab, you can
> make a credentials file and point at that.  read the manpage for smbmount)

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Peter Lutz  AA6AV
Debian Linux 2.4.21