Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC chad at shire.net
Mon Oct 17 22:57:10 PDT 2005


On Oct 17, 2005, at 10:19 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

>
> You have to run netatalk and howl, both are in the ports.  Then your
> FreeBSD machine will show in Finder like any other Mac server.

You only need to run netatalk if you want to offer afp shares from  
FreeBSD.  If you just want nfs then the howl thing should get it to  
show in the finder.

Chad

>
> Ted
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Charles  
>> Howse
>> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 8:18 AM
>> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder
>>
>>
>> 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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