Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder
Charles Howse
chowse at charter.net
Mon Oct 17 08:18:27 PDT 2005
Thanks for the reply, Per.
I understand what you're saying, but will a FreeBSD machine show up in
Finder under any circumstances?
> 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?
--
Thanks,
Charles
Mac OS X Tiger
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