[CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

[Boris Epstein]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Steve Thompson <smt at vgersoft.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Boris Epstein wrote:
>
>> In short - we have two CentOS-based NFS servers. They work fine with a
>> variety of Linux machines but when I try to mount them from a Mac OS X
>> 10.5 or 10.6 machine I get nowhere. I.e., the Mac does not complain
>> yet reads nothing over the NFS.
>
> I have CentOS 5.5 NFS servers and a load of Macs, both Leopard and Snow
> Leopard. I too had a lot of NFS trouble, especially for multi-homed NFS
> servers, until I switched from NFS over udp to NFS over tcp (for the Macs
> only), and now everything works well. I even had trouble with NFS over udp
> to Mac clients from an OSX NFS server.
>
> Steve
> _______________________________________________

Steve,

Thanks. I am only doing NFS over TCP and still no dice. Any special
options you use either on the client or on the server side?

Boris.