NFS mount dissappearing

[Matthew Gillen]

Robert La Ferla wrote:
> My mounts are in NetInfo.  I think the automounter uses them.  Is there
> a way to not use the automounter?

Just put a static entry in the /etc/fstab file.  On linux, this would look like:
server:/music	/music	nfs	defaults	0 0

But I'm not sure what the "fstab" file is called on OSX/BSD (on solaris it's
vfstab).

HTH,
Matt

> On Sep 7, 2007, at 8:44 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> 
>> Robert La Ferla wrote:
>>> I am having NFS problems.   My NFS server runs on Fedora Core 6.   I
>>> have Mac OS X 10.4, Linux and Windows clients.  The main problem is with
>>> the OSX client.   I put my iTunes library on the server to conserve
>>> local disk space but occasionally the mounted iTunes directory goes
>>> away.  iTunes doesn't complain but thinks I have an empty library and
>>> then proceeds to build a new one.  It doesn't erase the actual music but
>>> destroys the index instead.  I do not know why the NFS mount point is
>>> disappearing.  The client uses the options "w,net,tcp" for the mount.  I
>>> only use TCP because I need UDP for other services like Bitorrent and
>>> RTSP (Asterisk), etc...  What could be going on?  Should I try using a
>>> "hard" mount option?
>>
>> Are you using the automounter?  Because that will unmount if you haven't
>> used any files on a given share for a while.  I have the that issue
>> with a
>> music share on my linux box.
>>
>> If not, what does /var/log/messages say on the client and server?
>>
>> Matt


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