[rescue] Automounting NFS volumes on OSX

Michael Schiller schiller at agrijag.com
Thu Dec 26 01:05:09 CST 2002


On Wednesday, December 25, 2002, at 07:31 PM, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> Michael Schiller <schiller at agrijag.com> wrote:
>> mount machinename:/export/home/username /mnt
>>
>
> Hey Mike!
>
> Try:
> 	sudo mount machinename:/fs/to/mount /mnt/point
> As only root can mount nfs filesystems or something, and loggin in
> directly as root is not allowed in OS X.

That's basically what I did. I didn't use sudo, but rather did su to 
become root. (I've activated the root user on my machine) And it didn't 
work, when I do that, the mount point goes away :(
>
> Automounting is a somewaht laborious process, but can totally be done.
> This website:
> http://www.withay.com/macosx/nfs-client.html
> explaines everything in great detail...

I will check this out, thanks.
>
-Mike
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