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Connect your Mac to an NFS share on a Mac OS X server (posted: 7-20-05 9:58 PM)
NFS services are one of the more confusing aspects of using Mac OS X server, but the syntax is the most confusing part - other than that it's pretty simple. To use NFS, first you need to "export" the share point on your server using the Workgroup Manager application (on Panther or Tiger server). Then, to mount the NFS volume in a local folder called /myMounts, just issue this command in the terminal applciation (or in the 'Go > Connect to Server...' menu item):
mount -t nfs host.domain.com:/share_name/ /myMounts
Then just cd into '/myMounts' and you'll see the contents of your server 'Users' folder. If you're using Panther server, and the share name lives inside a server disk that is not the boot volume, you may need to issue the command like so:
mount -t nfs host.domain.com:Volumes/disk_name/share_name/ /myMounts
