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NFS Manager - 3.3

Manage all built-in NFS features.

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All Time:	(4.8)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	3.3
Release Date:	2009-11-02
License:	Shareware
Downloads (this version):	411
Downloads (all versions):	45,723
Price:	$15.00

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Product Description:

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.

What's new in this version:

This version completes full support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Added option pane to control settings of the network automounter of Mac OS X.
Added mount option to hide an NFS mount in the Finder.
Added mount option to automatically disconnect a server after it has been reported unresponsive for a specific time period.
Added mount option to suppress user interface messages that an NFS server is unresponsive if the server is reporting jukebox errors.
Added server configuration option to advertize NFS shares in the local Bonjour domain only.
Added server configuration option to define the hash table size for the list of NFS shares.
Added NFS status server configuration option to reject requests for simulated crashes.
Added feature to detect and repair a broken NFS server configuration if the server has been setup incorrectly with third-party tools or by manual intervention.
The security architecture has been modified to fulfill the latest security guidelines for Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard.
The graphical user interface has been enhanced.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC

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Fine Application.. - Version: 2.7, 1/22/2005 06:23AM PST

(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)

Mac-Fan No 1

..that does what is says. Even experienced UNIX-users are sometimes happy to have some tools that makes work faster and easier, especially in OS X, that has some extras (f.e. Netinfo) that makes pain in the a... out of most easy tasks on "normal" UNIXes.
Thanks.

good tool - Version: 2.6, 3/17/2004 03:19PM PST

wwwmnky

The interface could be cleaner, but otherwise this is much less painful than mucking around in netinfo.

@jrishaw: Please inform… - Version: 2.03, 3/15/2003 02:04AM PST

(5 of 6 users found this comment useful)

OSXNerd

yourself before you make unqualified comments: 1) Although RFC 1813 updates RFC 1094, Mac OS X does not implement it. Apple's NFS support is based on NeXT code written in 1993, two years before RFC 1813 existed. So the specification that Mac OS X only supports RFC 1094 is absolutely correct. 2) I don't believe that you are really able to distribute NFS automount tables to a network of 600 Mac OS X clients on the command line in 30 seconds. However, NFS Manager is able to do that.