CentOS - Jun 2011 - mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

Hello listmates,

Yes, I know - Macs and NFS do not co-exist easily. Still I've got to
make this happen somehow.

In short - we have two CentOS-based NFS servers. They work fine with a
variety of Linux machines but when I try to mount them from a Mac OS X
10.5 or 10.6 machine I get nowhere. I.e., the Mac does not complain
yet reads nothing over the NFS.

Has anybody seen this? Does anybody know of a fix?

Thanks.

Boris.

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Boris Epstein wrote:
> In short - we have two CentOS-based NFS servers. They work fine with a
> variety of Linux machines but when I try to mount them from a Mac OS X
> 10.5 or 10.6 machine I get nowhere. I.e., the Mac does not complain
> yet reads nothing over the NFS.
I have CentOS 5.5 NFS servers and a load of Macs, both Leopard and Snow 
Leopard. I too had a lot of NFS trouble, especially for multi-homed NFS 
servers, until I switched from NFS over udp to NFS over tcp (for the Macs 
only), and now everything works well. I even had trouble with NFS over udp 
to Mac clients from an OSX NFS server.

Steve

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> In short - we have two CentOS-based NFS servers. They work fine with a
> variety of Linux machines but when I try to mount them from a Mac OS X
> 10.5 or 10.6 machine I get nowhere. I.e., the Mac does not complain
> yet reads nothing over the NFS.
>
> Has anybody seen this? Does anybody know of a fix?
You need "insecure" in the export options for OS X to allow you to
mount an NFS volume.