Comments on: NFS exports and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

By: tismey

tismey — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:21:47 +0000

The way FTP is implemented on the TViX is a bit knackered and it doesn’t properly respond to directory listing, which is apparently why only certain FTP clients work. Even if you could mount it as an FTP Volume, you wouldn’t be able to write to it without using something like MacFuse. It doesn’t look like they ever got round to addressing it in V1 of MacFusion, but I haven’t given v2 a go.

By: Clint

Clint — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:48:11 +0000

Thanks for putting this up. The nfs sharing on the tvix is so painful and picky. Your blog has helped a lot. Have you been able to mount a ftp share on your mac yet? I have to use Filezilla but would prefer to just have a mounted drive. I just can’t get the settings right. Any ideas you may have would be appreciated.

Thanks
Clint

By: tismey

tismey — Sat, 24 May 2008 11:13:23 +0000

Hi Henrik

Glad you found the site useful!

I’ve not played about much with themes for teh TViX, I must admit. There is something I saw though. Try this: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=951350

Cheers
tismey

By: Henrik

Henrik — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:08:15 +0000

Thank you so so SO much Tismey! You have helped me use my tvix along with my mac with all the power it packs! I feel like writing this all in capital letters, but we all know what everybody thinks of that. Anyway, it’s a BIG thank you sent out from sweden to ya!

I really hope you can hook us up with some more great tips regarding the tvix and mac-user experience! How about editing themes and getting them on the tvix from the mac? Any help on that?

Throw me a mail!

Cheers and thanks again!

By: Juan

Juan — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:20:47 +0000

Thanks! Now It’s working!

By: tismey

tismey — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:32:41 +0000

Hi Juan,

Glad the blog has been of some help to you.

The IP address you need to put ito the TViX is the IP address of your Mac. You can get this from the Network pane in System Preferences. You’re probably best assigning a static IP to your Mac so you don’t need to keep changing this setting.

By: Juan

Juan — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:12:29 +0000

Hello! This is the first time I’ve visited your blog and I’ve found it amazing. Thanks a lot! I’ve followed all your steps and everything is running well, except for one thing: I don’t know what IP adress enter in my TVIX. Could you help me to find out wich IP adress has the export list of localhost?

Right now, when I type “showmount -e” it says:
/tvixhd1 Everyone

Thanks a lot for your help!

By: revolution34 » Blog Archive » NFS Manager v3.0 available for Leopard

revolution34 » Blog Archive » NFS Manager v3.0 available for Leopard — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:48:25 +0000

[...] NFS Manager v3.0 is now available to put a shiny GUI on your NFS Exports under Leopard. I haven’t tried it because my NFS Exports are all set up as detailed in this post and I’m not messing with them now!! [...]

By: tismey

tismey — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:04:09 +0000

That’s great news! Interesting to know that you can get away without needing those options specified. Hopefully if anyone else encounters the same problem then this will be of help to them.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:18:04 +0000

Hey Tismey. Fixed it at last! (with help from the MCP Forum). For some reason it didn’t like my mask and subnet (even though they were correct). So my simplified exports file looked like this:

/matthewtv -ro -maproot=nobody

ie. no subnet or mask mentioned, and then it worked perfectly
on showmount I get:

Exports list on localhost:
/matthewtv Everybody