Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:52:40 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OSX NFS-Server && FreeBSD NFS Client Message-ID: <872A6988-2C89-4AF1-99E6-57B744C799CB@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20080103073138.G99137@gwdu60.gwdg.de> References: <20080103073138.G99137@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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On Jan 2, 2008, at 10:50 PM, Konrad Heuer wrote: > I observe a serious problem with NFS exports from a Mac OS X 10.4 > server to FreeBSD 6.2 NFS clients (itself running on DELL PowerEdge > 2850 server hardware). > > We use the StorNext distributed file system in which FreeBSD cannot > participate straightly (sorry to say). But OS X can do using the > XSAN software from Apple, so we integrated the OS X server into the > StorNext environment. > > We want OS X to NFS export the filesystems to FreeBSD clients, which > by itself for example act as SMB servers using Samba 3.0.x. You really don't want to export a filesystem which itself is being mounted remotely. If you want to provide SMB filesharing for these files, run Samba on the OS X machine(s) directly. -- -Chuck
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