Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder

Per Johnson per at datalatt.com
Mon Oct 17 08:12:33 PDT 2005


Hi

Unfortunately is OS X not so good when it comes to NFS.
To make your FreeBSD box talk either AFP or SMB solves your problem. If 
you have something against that you could try NFS Manager.
http://www.bresink.com/osx/NFSManager.html

Regards

Per Johnson

Charles Howse wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I have a PowerMac G5, named "larry", which the 'Sharing' tab in System
> Preferences tells me that other machines on the network can access as
> 'larry.local'.
> 
> I have a FreeBSD 4.11 machine on the same subnet, named "moe" (no domain
> name), with NFS enabled.
> 
> I can connect to the FreeBSD machine's share by using "Connect to Server" in
> OS X, but the machine doesn't show up in the Network pane of Finder.
> 
> Can anyone point me to some resources where I can find a resolution to this?



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