Mount Linux NFS exports in OSX

I’m not a fan of OSX and I try to avoid it with the same veracity that I avoid Windows. But I recently needed to have a Linux NFS export mounted on an OSX server. A simple mount server:/export /mymountpoint didn’t work and returned “Operation not permitted”. After a bit of digging I found the solution.

I needed to instruct the client to use a privledged port by adding the “-P” option.

mount -o -P nfssrv:/export /mymount

Now to make it persistent of course its not as simple as shoving it in /etc/fstab and running “mount -a”. No OSX has to be difficult. It turned out lookupd got in the way.  To fix it I did the following after configuring my fstab.

mkdir /etc/lookupd
echo "LookupOrder Cache NI FF" >> /etc/lookupd/mounts
kill -HUP `cat /var/run/lookupd.pid`
mount -a

Yay that should have mounted your NFS mount and have it be persistent.