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My wife got a new MacBook Air. Her old one connected reliably to our file server in the basement, via NFS. The new one wouldn't, and I determined that the new one won't do NFS2, and I can't update the file server (it's too old).
So, I put together a new file server running Arch 5.11.10, and copied the files over. Mounting the appropriate directory from my other Arch system worked first time, but I can't get the new MacBook to connect. I spent quite a while looking for answers online, but none of them worked. This included clearing references to the server in the keychain -- made no difference.
In Finder I do Go->Connect to Server, enter the NFS address (which I've confirmed pretty carefully, and which worked on the old Mac), hit Connect, and I get: "There was a problem connecting to the server: "servername". Check the server name or address and then try again". Of course, "servername" is in /etc/hosts and "ping servername" works as expected.
On the Arch server, journalctl shows just one line: "rpc.mountd[332]: authenticated mount request from 192.168.1.30:1009 for /sharehome/images (/sharehome/images)"
Any help appreciated.
P.S. I almost forgot: this new server refuses to accept rsh or telnet. It just says "Authentication Failure" no matter what I do. ssh works though, so I've been using that and had almost forgotten these failures.
Last edited by dhs (2021-04-11 19:30:17)
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So just to verify: the issue is with macOS?
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I don't know. The mount request made it to the server and was authenticated. After that either the server failed to complete the mount and returned a failure code to the Mac, or the Mac didn't like what it got back from the server. I've asked an Apple-oriented friend to look at this too.
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Does this apply - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NF … _X_clients
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Yes -- "insecure" flag in exports file was the fix.
Thanks.
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Great: glad you are sorted. Please remember to edit your first post and prepend "[SOLVED]" to the title.
Cheers
Paul.
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