Client connect to NFS server as user?

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 15:38 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 09:27 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> >   
> >> How can I connect as user bobg, do I have to be root?
> >>
> >>     [bobg at box9 ~]$ mount.nfs box48:/home/NFS-files  /mnt/home
> >>     mount.nfs: permission denied: no match for /mnt/home found in /etc/fstab
> >>
> >> It looks as though I've missed something here ...
> >>     
> > ----
> > you would have to have an entry in /etc/fstab that specified this as a
> > 'user' mount
> >
> > something like this...
> >
> > my.nfs.server:/mnt/home  /home/NFS-files    nfs     user    0 0
> >
> > but the truth is that using automounts such as /etc/auto.home
> > or /auto.misc is even better
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
> >   
> 
>             Ok, thanks, I just need to know what my options are. Should
>             have suspected "fstab" and I will look at auto.home and
>             auto.misc ...
> 
>             I'm presently struggling with an Apple Mac, completely
>             foreign to me! If only I can find a "terminal" with a
>             command line.
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Terminal.app

/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app

Craig


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