Accessing Mounted NFS share through desktop

theeggman98 · 03-29-2002, 12:11 AM

First off I can access the nfs share through the command line no problem. But what I want to do is have a folder on my desktop that I can click on and access the share.

But when click on this folder on the desktop I get "alias 'directory name' could not be opened, because the original item could not be found".

This is confusing because the folder is not an alias before I mount the drive to that folder.

Also when I mount the drive to my desktop I have a new network drive icon appear called <nfs - 1000> which shows up as a volume but there is nothing inside.

didde · 03-29-2002, 03:28 AM

hey theeggman98!

i don't know if this will help you, but I managed to get my SMB server to mount on startup.. All I had to do was to add a script to the /Library/StartupItems that actually mounted the volume into /Volumes/SMB005. first I created the SMB005 directory, then I created another directory in ~/ called SmbDisk.. finally i made a symlink from /Volumes/SMB005 to ~ /SmbDisk..

the result of this is that I have an "alias" in my home folder to the share, but as soon as I login the share itself pops up on the desktop (and /).

maybe it'll help you some? of course this is not the ideal solution to mounting a share programmatically, but hey - it works!

lx · 03-29-2002, 02:54 PM

I was able to mount a remote NFS volume with NFSManager (http://www.bresink.de/osx/NFSManager.html), then create an alias to it on my desktop with "cd ~/Desktop; ln -s /Network/Servers/myRemoteNFSVolume/ myNFS".

Not sure if this depends on your method of mounting the NFS volume or not. I had to resort to NFSManager in trying this out because I couldn't get good 'ol "mount -t nfs" to work for me. (It doesn't seem to work on my MacOSX box like it does on the other *nix boxes I use, which is entirely an artifact of my lack of knowledge in the technical details of all of this).

theeggman98 · 03-30-2002, 06:23 PM

Update:

Well I tried mounting the share then symlinking it to the desktop and I still get "original item could not be found error" when I try to access the nfs share from the desktop.

I find it extremely odd that I can only access an nfs share through the command line.

E.

theeggman98 · 04-04-2002, 12:29 AM

I finally figured out why the symlink would not work. The folder did not belong to the same group. So all I had to do was chgrp 'group' 'folder' and now I can access nfs shares from the desktop.

E.

03-29-2002, 12:11 AM	#1
theeggman98 Prospect Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 27	Accessing Mounted NFS share through desktop First off I can access the nfs share through the command line no problem. But what I want to do is have a folder on my desktop that I can click on and access the share. But when click on this folder on the desktop I get "alias 'directory name' could not be opened, because the original item could not be found". This is confusing because the folder is not an alias before I mount the drive to that folder. Also when I mount the drive to my desktop I have a new network drive icon appear called <nfs - 1000> which shows up as a volume but there is nothing inside.

03-29-2002, 03:28 AM	#2
didde Prospect Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 39	maybe? hey theeggman98! i don't know if this will help you, but I managed to get my SMB server to mount on startup.. All I had to do was to add a script to the /Library/StartupItems that actually mounted the volume into /Volumes/SMB005. first I created the SMB005 directory, then I created another directory in ~/ called SmbDisk.. finally i made a symlink from /Volumes/SMB005 to ~ /SmbDisk.. the result of this is that I have an "alias" in my home folder to the share, but as soon as I login the share itself pops up on the desktop (and /). maybe it'll help you some? of course this is not the ideal solution to mounting a share programmatically, but hey - it works!

04-04-2002, 12:29 AM	#5
theeggman98 Prospect Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 27	Solved! I finally figured out why the symlink would not work. The folder did not belong to the same group. So all I had to do was chgrp 'group' 'folder' and now I can access nfs shares from the desktop. E.

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03-29-2002, 02:54 PM	#3
lx Prospect Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 3	I was able to mount a remote NFS volume with NFSManager (http://www.bresink.de/osx/NFSManager.html), then create an alias to it on my desktop with "cd ~/Desktop; ln -s /Network/Servers/myRemoteNFSVolume/ myNFS". Not sure if this depends on your method of mounting the NFS volume or not. I had to resort to NFSManager in trying this out because I couldn't get good 'ol "mount -t nfs" to work for me. (It doesn't seem to work on my MacOSX box like it does on the other *nix boxes I use, which is entirely an artifact of my lack of knowledge in the technical details of all of this).

03-30-2002, 06:23 PM	#4
theeggman98 Prospect Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 27	Update: Well I tried mounting the share then symlinking it to the desktop and I still get "original item could not be found error" when I try to access the nfs share from the desktop. I find it extremely odd that I can only access an nfs share through the command line. E.