This will not work (anymore!) though it 'should'.Īutomount: /Volumes/my_mount: mountpoint unavailable Otherwise the automounter will not be able to read the config and fail with a. etc/auto_nfs (this is all one line): /Volumes/my_mount -fstype=nfs,noowners,nolockd,noresvport,hard,bg,intr,rw,tcp,nfc nfs://192.168.1.1:/exports/my_share net -hosts -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid Somewhere along the line, Apple decided allowing mounts directly into /Volumes should not be possible: I have spent quite a bit of time figuring out automounts of NFS shares in OS X. sudo mount_nfs -o resvport 192.168.0.100:/mnt/raid1/media /Volumes/mediaĪlso read Jose Manuel’s post for additional NFS parameters to achieve better NFS performance.(you may want to read this on GitHub, since syntax formatting on coderwall is a bit wonky) Thanks to Jose Manuel’s post, simply adding -o resvport to the mount_nfs command resolves the above command line error and successfully mounts the NFS share. mnt/raid1/media 192.168.0.0/16(rw,insecure) Fix the Command Line Error If you want to be able to mount the shares via the Finder’s mount dialog, you can add the server-side complement of -o resvport to the server’s /etc/exports file: add “insecure” to the share options. Thanks to RJVB’s comment, to fix the Finder error, you simply need to add the server-side complement of -o resvport to the NFS server’s exports file. But, this results in the following error: 192.168.0.100:/mnt/raid1/media Operation not permitted To mount the NFS share from the command line, open Terminal and mount the same NFS share by running sudo mount_nfs 192.168.0.100:/mnt/raid1/media /Volumes/media (assume /Volumes/media already exists). To mount the NFS share from Finder, open Finder, select Go in the menu bar, select Connect to Server… in the dropdown menu, and type nfs://192.168.0.100:/mnt/raid1/media in the Server Address: field.

Two of the ways to mount an NFS share on OS X are via the Finder or via the command line. Mounting an NFS share on OS X has always been slightly more troublesome when compared to mounting an NFS share on a Linux distribution.įor example, I have a Fedora box exporting an NFS share that I want to mount on OS X Mountain Lion.

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