zfs discuss - Feb 2007 - NFS share problem with mac os x client

Hello, I test right now the beauty of zfs. I have installed opensolaris on a
spare server to test nfs exports. After creating tank1 with zpool and a
subfilesystem with zfs tank1/nfsshare, I have set the option sharenfs=on to
tank1/nfsshare.

With Mac OS X as client I can mount the filesystem in Finder.app with
nfs://server/tank1/nfsshare, but if I copy a file an error ocours. Finder say
"The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient
privileges for some of the items.".

Until now I have shared the filesystems always with samba so I have almost no
experience with nfs. Any ideas?

Kevin
 
 
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Hello Kevin,

Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 9:39:35 PM, you wrote:

KB> Hello, I test right now the beauty of zfs. I have installed
KB> opensolaris on a spare server to test nfs exports. After creating
KB> tank1 with zpool and a subfilesystem with zfs tank1/nfsshare, I
KB> have set the option sharenfs=on to tank1/nfsshare.

KB> With Mac OS X as client I can mount the filesystem in Finder.app
KB> with nfs://server/tank1/nfsshare, but if I copy a file an error
KB> ocours. Finder say "The operation cannot be completed because you
KB> do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items.".

KB> Until now I have shared the filesystems always with samba so I
KB> have almost no experience with nfs. Any ideas?

In short - make sure your UID on Mac is enough to access the files on
nfs (as it would be if you would try to access those files locally).
Or perhaps you tried from user with uid=0 in which case it''s mapped to
nobody user by default.

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 Robert                            mailto:rmilkowski at task.gda.pl
                                       http://milek.blogspot.com

The setup below works fine for me.

macmini:~ jimb$ mount | grep jimb
ride:/xraid2/home/jimb on /private/var/automount/home/jimb (nosuid, automounted)

macmini:~ jimb$ nidump fstab / | grep jimb
ride:/xraid2/home/jimb /home/jimb nfs rw,nosuid,tcp 0 0

NFS server: Solaris 10 11/06 x86_64 + patches, NFSv3.
On the client there''s latest release MacOSX version + patches.
 
 
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OSX *loves* NFS - it''s a lot faster than Samba - but
you need a bit of extra work.

You need a user on the other end with the right uid and gid
(assuming you''re using NFSv3 - you probably are).


Have a look at :
 http://number9.hellooperator.net/articles/2007/01/12/zfs-for-linux-and-osx-and-windows-and-bsd

(especially the ''create a user'' bit).

On 07/02/07, Kevin Bortis <wermut at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello, I test right now the beauty of zfs. I have installed opensolaris on
a spare server to test nfs exports. After creating tank1 with zpool and a
subfilesystem with zfs tank1/nfsshare, I have set the option sharenfs=on to
tank1/nfsshare.
>
> With Mac OS X as client I can mount the filesystem in Finder.app with
nfs://server/tank1/nfsshare, but if I copy a file an error ocours. Finder say
"The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient
privileges for some of the items.".
>
> Until now I have shared the filesystems always with samba so I have almost
no experience with nfs. Any ideas?
>
> Kevin
>
>
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> In short - make sure your UID on Mac is enough to
> access the files on
> nfs (as it would be if you would try to access those
> files locally).
> Or perhaps you tried from user with uid=0 in which
> case it''s mapped to
> nobody user by default.
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Robert
Exactly as Robert suggests.

I''ve had the same "problem" but it turned out to simply be
that I needed the OS X group and user ID''s to match those setup on the
ZFS OpenSolaris server.  Once you correct this, the Finder will work great to a
ZFS NFS share.
 
 
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