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Disk Utility NFS mounts broken in 10.7.3?

My NFS mounts no longer function in Lion 10.7.3. Although all the mounts in Disk Utility verify OK, no files can be seen in the mountpoints. I can use NFS Manager successfully however.
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iMac user can't access NFS mounted home directories with sudo

I've just reinstalled my iMac on my home network, and have mounted the user home directories via a NFS share (hosted on an Ubuntu server). The problem I have is that when I use sudo, I get permission ...
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Windows NFS client, remove and create the same file

I use Windows 7 and Win client for nfs. I mount nfs drive and make symbolic link to this drive according to this Any way to symlink an NFS folder on a NTFS drive on Windows 7? I have a problem when I ...
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mount Command Works, but fstab Version Fails - Samba Issue

I can mount a share with this command: sudo mount -o username=user,password=pass //192.168.5.227/share /mnt/share And in my fstab I have this line: //192.168.5.227/share /mnt/share cifs ...
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How do I enable NFS server on Windows 7 (Ultimate x64 in my case)?

How do I enable NFS server on Windows 7 ? I installed "Windows Services for UNIX" via "Turn Windows features on and off" in Control Panes. But I don't know how to launch and configure server. One ...
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Basic linux based fileserver for home use, what file sharing protocol to use to serve Linux, MacOS and Windows filesharing clients?

I got an aging Gentoo Linux laptop which I am about to transform into a fileserver for our home users (to view our family photos, films etc). Clients to support will be Linux, MacOS and Windows. ...
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Troubles using apt-get install with home on NFS share

I am trying to install a bunch of packages using apt-get install on a VM running Debian 5.0.9 (Lenny). What makes this endeavor frustrating and difficult is the fact that my home directory on this ...
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Symlink directories outside an NFS share in that NFS share

I'm trying to share a directory over NFS: Client: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Server: Arch Linux x64 I have a directory called /data/authorized. I'd like to symlink other directories that are not in ...
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Error mounting Arch Linux NFS share on Windows 7 Ultimate

I'm trying to mount an NFS share over a LAN: Server: Arch Linux x64 Client: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 The server already successfully exports NFS shares to other Linux machines, so I'm pretty sure it ...
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Can't search an NFS mount on 10.6… only works with SMB

I have established a few NFS mounts via the Disk Utility in 10.6.8. I can not search and find any documents when the share is using NFS.... but with SMB, it will search and find the files. Is there ...
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How to set up NFS priority for different mount points?

i have an NFS4 server with exports the home directory of each user and one additional directory for data exchange. On the client at least the home directory and the data exchange directory is mounted. ...
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mount + mount limitation + exe mount from 20 machines to one server

I have more then diff 20 linux machines (Linux version - 5.1) and all linux machines are connected VIA switch to one PXE server Question: is it possible exe mount on the same time from each Linux ...
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Can't mount NFS4 share

I have two directories exported from an NFS server. On my NFS client machine, I can mount one of the directories, using the default syntax, as NFS4. However, the other directory will only mount if I ...
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NFS mount in windows XP [closed]

Does anybody have any experience mounting nfs on win xp? I know that it works on Win 7 (and it is a new feature).
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How can I make one folder/share link to multiple different folders? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: How to expose 2 folders as 1 network share in windows 7? So I've tried NTFS Junction Points and DFS and I can't either of them to do what I want. I have C:\Movies, ...
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ssh: sharing control sockets over nfs

Can ssh be used with ControlPath set to a path on an nfs share if the control socket being shared was created by another host? Attempting this gives me this error message: Control socket ...
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rsync from HFS+ (OSX) to NFS (FreeNAS) with special characters

I have inadvertently created a mess. I have a drive mounted on a Mac running 10.5.8 and a FreeNAS 0.7.2 box. I had been mounting the FreeNAS share on OSX via SMB, but recently learned that I was doing ...
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faster way to mount a remote file system than sshfs?

I have been using sshfs to work remotely, but it is really slow and annoying, particularly when I use eclipse on it. Is there any faster way to mount the remote file system locally? My no.1 priority ...
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NFS fails to mount local directory when network is down

I'm trying to mount a local directory with NFS (see why). My /etc/exports contain this line: /var/www/mysite localhost(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,all_squash,anonuid=33,anongid=33) and this in ...
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PBS/Torque/Maui “No such file or directory” on qsub

I just managed to get PBS/Torque/Maui working on an in-house cluster, but I am still having a little misunderstanding. I am very new to this, so any help is appreciated... if it's something obvious, ...
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Copy remote files on nfs without round-trip

I have a large amout of data (several GB) on a remote drive, that is transparently mounted via nfs. I'd like to copy these files into a subdirectory of where they are already residing, so everything ...
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NFS mount on Mac OS X 10.6.8 - Problem with special characters such as “á”

On Snow Leopard, I used Disk Utility's "NFS Mount" feature to automatically mount a NFS shared folder from my Synology NAS. Here are the Advanced Mount Parameters I used: ...
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How do you export an mhddfs share out nfs on FreeBSD?

I am trying to export a mhddfs directory via nfs and it won't allow me to. Think it has to do with fuse. I have it working on linux but not sure how to do things like set the fsid and can't find ...
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Can I password protect an NFS share?

I have two machines on a local network (Ubuntu 11.04). I created an NFS server on machine A. The other machine B receives its IP through DHCP. I want to know if IP is the only way to allow or deny ...
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nfs really slow on one specific client

I have a fileserver in my network, with the storage accessible via NFS. From one particular client machine, reading from this NFS share is really slow. Or rather, it stops all the time. The pattern ...
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Distributed File System using NFS?

Is it possible to setup NFS to perform as a parallel distributed file system? I'd like to have to NFS servers containing the same file data and serving file ops request for load balancing and to ...
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Best NFS mount approach

Our applications on AIX world are supposed to write files in to certain locations on a Windows server. To make things easier, NFS was used (historically) The application running on AIX uses a user ...
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NFS single mount point with symlinks vs multiple mount points

I currently have 3 servers: file, web, and computational. I want to have a folder in every person's home folded shared between the systems. The NFS server is working but was wondering if it would be ...
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user and group ids scrambled when using NFS

I'm using nfs to mount the folder /mirror from a server onto a node. This works, except on the node the user and group are displayed as "4294967294". On the server: ls -al ./ displays -rw-r--r-- ...
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Is it possible to bypass NFS file permissions by using a user-space NFS client

There are some user-space based NFS clients (e.g. NFS Client library). Can I bypass file permissions by using such client? For example: Server1 has nfs-exported file system with files -rwxr-xr-x ...
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NFS client (SFU in Windows 7) creates folders with 'x' bits set to false

I have a drive mounted on a Windows 7 64-bit machine from a VirtualBox Ubuntu VM via NFS. Whenever I try creating a folder from Windows, the folder is created with its executable bit set to false, ...
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What to do with NFS server (UTF-8) and Windows 7?

NFS share is mounted using mount server:/share x: command. File(cyrillic) "Новый текстовый документ.txt" created with samba share (and using UTF-8) is shown as "Новый текстовый ...
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How to permanently mount an NFS share under Windows 7?

If I have an OpenWrt router with a 1,5TB HDD on it that's exported via NFS3, then how can I permanently mount it on an NFS share under Windows 7? (they're on the same subnet.)
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NFS mount readable but not writable

I'm trying to mount a remote directory owned by www-data to a local directory owned by sam. From sam's home directory, I've created ~/directory, and when I "mount directory", I see the contents of ...
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what do I need to do on a unix machine to allow some PC computer to mount (NFS)

I have a unix computer and a PC computer. I want to mount a drive in the PC onto a unix directory. What do I need to do in the unix side to allow this? Thank you!
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How to (cleanly) dismount sshfs when mounted on a NFS mount point?

My coworker has a desktop computer with /home shared on our file server. I have developed a Perl script for sshfs-mounting a certain directory on another SSH host which works fine on my laptop. On ...
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Fastest protocol for mounting a NAS for Linux and Mac [closed]

Possible Duplicates: Samba vs. NFS: Performance AFP, SMB, NFS which is the best data transfer protocol ? I am building a file server with RAID 10. I need a way to access the files from ...
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NFS won't allow access to mounted media

I'll explain it here, but I have this problem, for which the solution that user received doesn't fix my problem satisfactorily (sshfs) The problem is that I would like to share my /media folder over ...
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NFS4 problems on Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu Server 11.04

I tried installing nfs-common on a Ubuntu 10.04 and on a Ubuntu Server 11.04 machines like this: sudo apt-get install nfs-common The /etc/init.d/nfs-common script does not get created. Also, the ...
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ImageMagick command sometimes fails

I have an ImageMagick command that is something like this: convert "/path/to/photo" -set comment "(c) my company" -resize WxH miff:- | composite -dissolve 30 -geometry +40+138 -quality 80 ...
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How can I access SMB network shares on-demand from a Mac?

I regularly use samba network file shares on a corporate network from my Mac running Leopard. How can I automount these shares on-demand when I access a representative path via a shell or the Finder? ...
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Server 2008 NFS mounts with non-interactive user account

I have a service on Server 2008 R2 running under a service account, ie: no log on privileges, that needs to access an NFS share exported from a Solaris 8 server. The information I've been able to find ...
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Any way to symlink an NFS folder on a NTFS drive on Windows 7?

I am using Windows 7 and have successfully mounted an nfs drive using the Windows NFS Client. I would now link to symlink (or create a junction in different terminology) a folder to a location on a ...
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Can anybody give me an idea of when to use NFS and when to use iscsi as the file system?

What are the differences of these two types? After searching on the Internet, I know NFS transfers files to the client, while iscsi transfers block to the client. With such information, I am still ...
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Multiple Machines: Share Data Using NFS / HTTP / FTP?

I have a network of 20 machines, all running Ubuntu 10.04. Each machine has about 200[GB] of data that I'd like to share with all other 19 machines for READ ONLY PURPOSES. The reading should be done ...
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CIFS (Windows Share) or NFS for Windows directory share

I have a (Virtualized) Linux server which I'd like to backup regularly. The rest of our environment is Microsoft and our backup solution (ArchiveIQ) runs only on Windows - there are no Linux clients. ...
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how to mount nfs on OSX so I can create new files?

I mounted restoredb directory to my OS X 10.6.2 via Disk Utility with Advanced Mount Parameters = resvport. I am able to edit files that are in the mounted directory but I am not able to create new ...
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How to I set up nfs using the Drobo Unfsd app?

How do I set up my nfs on my Drobo FS so that I can connect to it from my Mac using the NFS protocol? I have downloaded and installed Unfsd program from the DroboApps page. My exports file looks like ...
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NFS slow in Finder

From the terminal the following command is fast (talking about 1TB) find . | wc -l From the Finder every time I open a new folder, Finder hangs, pops up a window message saying NFS disconnect, if ...
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How to mount NFS export on Mac OS X?

I have FreeBSD (test.local) box configured as NFS server. And I'm trying to mount its NFS sharing form my mac (hhmm.local) /nfs hhmm.local /nfs has 777 permission. And I checked from mac that ...

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