Comments on: NFS exports and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

By: Henrik

Henrik — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:09:10 +0000

Hi!

I used the guide yesterday under Snow Leopard and it DOES still work flawlessly with my TViX 4100. Got up and running straight away. Check your input bandara1!

By: Henrik

Henrik — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:54:36 +0000

I just followed your guide again after a clean install of Snow Leopard. It DOES still work! I even got it right on the first go. Flawless! I’m using an imac with wired LAN through a router, also connected by wire to my tvix 4100. Maybe the glitch is in the Airport/WLAN? Also, check your network mask! =)

Thanks again for this great guide! Have to copy down these commands in case your site should some day go down.

By: tismey

tismey — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:48:41 +0000

Hi
I’m really sorry, but I’m afraid I really can’t help! I haven’t upgraded to Snow Leopard yet, and I no longer have a TVix to test it with.

I found the following reference to NFS shares under 10.6
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090830073912179
but this appears to concern mounting an NFS share on the Mac, as opposed to the other way around. NFS Manager (http://www.bresink.de/osx/NFSManager.html) has been updated to add preliminary Snow Leopard support, so that might be a good place to start.

Really sorry I can’t be more help – good luck!

By: bandara1

bandara1 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:03:17 +0000

I mounted SNOW LEOPARD and…
the trick doesn’t work anymore.
There is no more /etc/exports

I read something about “Disk Utility” and a menu item named “NFS Mount…” but I’m not able to get it working.

tismey… can you help me?

By: tismey

tismey — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:58:54 +0000

Hmm... this is really confusing, because mine has always just worked. When you're connected to the airport disk, how does it say you're connected? As you can see, mine says 'connected as tvixhd1' and there is a tvixhd1 folder.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:57:52 +0000

I tried that but I still couldn’t see those files in the root directory except when I connect the HD directly to the MacPro. Any idea? Very frustrated….

By: tismey

tismey — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:31:40 +0000

Ah, gotcha. So when you click on the ‘Connect As’ button and it prompts you for a username and password, can you log in as tvixhd1/tvixhd1? That should put you in that directory.

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:29:37 +0000

Hi tismey,

The situation is : My tvix can see the file in the home directory of tvixhd1. But my MacPro cannot see the folder and that means I can’t copy any file to that folder. My MacPro can only see the tvixhd1 home directory when the HD is plugged directly to the laptop. Otherwise the folder cannot be seen when the HD is connected to the AE.

What should I do let my MacPro to gain access to the home directory to the tvixhd1 while the HD is connected to the AE?

By: tismey

tismey — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:16:16 +0000

Hi Ed
You actually shouldn’t be able to see that folder when you connect via the airport extreme, because that folder is the tvixhd1 ‘Home’ directory.

If I’ve understood you correctly, with the HD connected up to the AE, you can see the files in the tvixhd1 folder. So can you not just drag files into that window to copy them to the Hard Drive, or am I misunderstanding you? Could you maybe post a screenshot of what you’re seeing?

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:11:48 +0000

Hi tismey,
I followed your instruction but still couldn’t set it up. I thought I might just connect the external hard disk directly to my macpro and see if I can share a folder via the system preferences.

When I connected it back to the airport extreme, I can now see the files under the user account tvixhd1. However, I cannot see this folder. It seems like it is a hidden file user the folder Users. That means I can’t put files in that folder tvixhd1 unless I plug the external harddisk to my macpro.

I don’t know what I have done. Can you please help me ?