NFS is an old standby in the *nix world. It seems that it’s about as old as the hills and while it can be cranky at times, it’s pretty easy to setup, manage and use. Once it’s configured, you use it in a similar fashion as you do in Mac OS X Server. The client configuration is identical. To get started, let’s install the nfs-kernel-server, nfs-common and portmap packages on our Ubuntu 10.04 box: apt-get install nfs-kernel-server nfs-common portmap Then let’s create a directory to share (aka export): mkdir /Homes Then we need to define the permissions for /Homes (ends up similar in functionality to the export to option in…
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Box.net Client For Mac OS X
Wrote a quick little tool for mounting Box.net accounts to the Finder of Mac OS X. This allows you to interact with the Box.net service as you would a MobileMe account or a file server. The tool connects to Box.net over WebDAV and so you will need to provide you username and password (which can be saved into your Keychain) for your Box.net account with each login. However, you can put the tool into your startup items, login items, etc. Future releases might include the ability to store your credentials so you don’t have to provide them any more or the ability to synchronize your files from your Box.net account,…
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Sandboxed Out of My Own Boxen
Playing with Sandbox can be tricky. The other day my own box (luckily one not FDE’d) started to kernel panic and I’d just activated about 12 sandbox profiles. To fix, I booted to single user mode (Command-S), mounted the drive (using the command mount -uw /). Then I did a find for all *.sb files (assuming you use the sb extension for your sandbox files) touched that day, deactivated them and rebooted. Oddly, still no dice. Did I miss one? Next, just to verify it was a sandbox issue, I went back into single user mode, remounted the volume and used this command to move the Seatbelt kernel extension to…
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Mounting a Volume for Xsan 1.x
To mount a volume: Open xSAN Admin from /Applications/Server. Under the SAN Components list click on the Volume you would like to mount. Click on the Clients tab for the volume. Click on the client you would like to mount the volume for (see Figure 2.x). Click on the Mount Read Only if the client system does not need to write to the volume. If the client system does need to write to the volume, click on the Mount Read Write button. Figure 2.x Mounting the Volume on a client Once you have mounted the volume, click on it using the Finder. Click on the Finder menu of the system…