File sharing - OSX Mavericks serves Raspbian

[flaqueman]

Hi !
First of all, I would like to apologize if this has been discussed before. I just couldn't find anything on this forum or anywhere else.

I've been trying to setup a file sharing from my MacBookPro running OSX 10.9.2 (mavericks) accessible to a bunch of Raspberry running Raspbian (NOOBS' last version I guess). The idea is to have a folder on my mac shared over network to 6 Pi (they will cron a rsync to get newly taken pictures for an art project).

I tried with a simple SMB file share but the Pi keeps on telling me that either the action is not supported or that too many users are connected to the server (that is none) !

So I tried NFS since it seemed somehow more simple... After 3 days on this, the closest I got to what I want was showmount returning an empty list (I guess this time it's something wrong with the configuration on the mac)...

I'm not a linux master and I'm not asking for the magik answer. I'm just wondering if somebody tried to do the same (raspbian accessing file on mac over NFS or SMB) and if there is an option I'm missing somewhere.

Thanks in advance !

[timrowledge]

I have my Pi using NFS to access a directory on my iMac. It wasn't too hard to get it working (but I have a new problem to do with setting it up that needs discussing somewhere)

My notes to me [derived from the raspbian how-to] about setting it up are -
On Pi-

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`sudo aptitude install nfs-common port map`

On the current version of Raspbian, rpcbind (part of the portmap package) does not start by default. This is presumably done to control memory consumption on our small systems. However, it isn't very big and we need it to make an NFS mount. To enable it manually, so we can mount our directory immediately:

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`sudo service rpcbind start`

To make rpcbind start automatically at boot:

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`sudo update-rc.d rpcbind enable`

Make a directory for the mount.

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mkdir /home/pi/DizietFS

Mount manually to test

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`mount -t nfs 192.168.1.65:/Users/tim /home/pi/DizietFS`

Now, to make it permanent, you need to edit /etc/fstab to make the directory mount at boot. I added a line to the end of /etc/fstab:

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192.168.1.665:/Users/tim /home/pi/DizietFS nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr 0 0

The rsize and wsize entries are not strictly necessary but I find they give some extra speed.

On iMac, in a terminal

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`sudo nano /etc/exports`

(which won’t normally exist until you save it)
and add the line

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/Users/tim -mapall=tim -alldirs -network 192.168.1.0 -mask 255.255.255.0

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`sudo nfsd restart`

should restart the daemon.
After all that, reboot the Pi and DizietFS ought to be visible and accessible.
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My new problem is that the `sudo update-rc.d rpcbind enable` command is now failing with a complaint

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insserv: warning: script 'mathkernel' missing LSB tags and overrides

and after a reboot the nfs connection is not automatically started - so I have to redo the manual connection.

[flaqueman]

Wouha !
That was so simple ! Thanks a lot !

I guess I missed enabling the rpcbind service and my exports file didn't look quite like that but I think this is the OSX version of it (most of the tutorials I've been following where meant for Ubuntu/Debian/*nix and not OSX).

The automount works fine for me. I don't think it comes from the mathkernel LSB tag since I've had this warning message even on my newly installed Raspbian.

Thanks again !