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

Wed Jun 29 21:30:13 UTC 2011
Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com> 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.
>
> Has anybody seen this? Does anybody know of a fix?

You need "insecure" in the export options for OS X to allow you to
mount an NFS volume.