NFS Manager (MAC osX)

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NFS Manager 3.4

NFS Manager is a graphical user interface to control all built-in NFS features of Mac OS X. It can manage a whole network of Mac OS X computers to setup a distributed NFS file system via a few simple mouse clicks.

NFS (Network File System) is the industry standard for file sharing on UNIX systems like Mac OS X. Each Mac OS X system can be setup as an NFS server to offer files to the network, or as an NFS client to access files shared by other computers. Different from other file sharing protocols built into Mac OS X, NFS has no limitations in the number of users or connections concurrently active. In addition, NFS can be setup to connect to servers fully automatically (“automounting”) without any password entries being necessary.

The application is designed to use the latest technologies available in Mac OS X, like Open Directory, Bonjour, or Kerberos. If your network is setup as a Kerberos realm, secure NFS with authenticated and encrypted connections can be configured.

NFS Manager 3 is for Mac OS X Leopard or later only. Previous generations of Mac OS X use a very different implementation of NFS and therefore need a different management tool. If you like to use NFS with legacy systems, please see the pages of NFS Manager 2 for further information.

The software is distributed electronically. You can download the product and test it before you decide to purchase a license for unrestricted usag


Release 3.4 (Build 100730)

• Added new Find panel to search for automount, mount, or share entries.
• Added new menu item to enforce a re-read of NFS configuration data from the operating system or remote directory nodes.
• The automount table has been redesigned to use two separate columns for servers and share paths.
• It is now possible to sort automount entries by server or by share path.
• The tables to inspect active shares offered by NFS servers can now be resized relative to each other.
• Corrected a problem where automount entries could not be saved onto an Open Directory node when they didn't specify any mount options.
• Corrected a user interface problem where warning messages regarding incorrect NFS share definitions could appear at the wrong location.
• Corrected a problem where a misleading warning message about a possible version conflict was recorded in the administrator's system log.

 

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Release 3.5 (Build 101109)

* Added a new option for NFS mounts on Snow Leopard to enforce display of the mounts in the Finder. This can be used as a workaround for the undocumented policy of Apple's automounter to always hide NFS automounts in Mac OS X 10.6.
* The user interface and the reference manual now better differentiate between NFS browsing policies in the original NFS implementation by SUN, and NFS browsing as implemented by Apple.
* The program now saves the previous NFS share definition to a backup file when repairing the NFS server setup by cleaning the configuration.
* This version updates the security component to perform privileged configuration tasks.
* Corrected a problem where an active “deadtimeout” mount option did not become visible when displaying the current automount setup.
* Corrected a problem where blanks at certain positions in the NFS configuration file could cause NFS Manager to ignore specific or all NFS settings of the local computer.

 

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Release 3.6

This version adds support for the operating system Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Please read the Release Notes. Higher level components of the first releases of Mac OS X Lion might not be mature enough yet to use NFS features of the lower system levels under all circumstances. Data loss can occur.
Support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has been removed. Mac OS X 10.6 is now the minimum requirement to use the application.
All components of the application now support full 64 bit operation.
The user interfaces to log in to directory services have been modified to match the design of current Mac OS X versions.
The internal architecture to communicate with Apple Open Directory Services has been redesigned in order to use the latest Mac OS X technologies.
When using Lion, the following new features of the operating system can be accessed via NFS Manager:
Support for NFS version 4 (client only).
Support for NFS over IPv6 (client only).
Configuration of callback features for NFSv4 operation.
Specific selection of TCP or UDP protocols for the different NFS sub-services.
Opportunistic fetching of attributes via ACCESS calls.
Disabling quota operations for specific mounts.
Disabling extended attributes and fork features for NFSv4 access.
Enabling Access Control Lists (“ACL permissions”) for NFSv4 access.
Replacing POSIX permissions by ACL permissions during NFSv4 access.
Using Unicode Normalization Form C for the encoding of names during NFS communication.