Mac OS 9 Lives
Mac OS 9 Discussion => Software => Topic started by: Tugboat on September 14, 2025, 05:40:35 PM
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Hello,
Longtime lurker, occasional poster. I am trying to get MacNFS to run as a client on my Quicksilver which has OS 9.2.2 and OS X 10.5. I run Marcel Bresink's NFS Manager (Version 5.97) as a server on my MacBook Air. I am able to connect to the server from Quicksilver OS X 10.5 via "Connect to Server" in the Finder. However, I am unable to do so from Quicksilver OS 9.2.2. I select NFS in the Chooser and when I try to connect I get various "MOUNTD" errors. After several hours of troubleshooting the last two days I realized I need help. And Knezzen, I think it might be from you as I see from past posts here and elsewhere that you were able to get it to work in the past. So was I, just two years ago on this same set-up but there was a crash, mistakes were made, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Mike
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Hello
on your Macbook Air (server side): have you set privileges to read/write for your shared folder?
on MacOS 9.2.2: there are different versions of the NFS extension, one is patched (3.0p3) the other/others aren't. I use the unpatched version which I put manually in the extensions folder. Reboot then everything was fine.
NB: when I started using NFS I experienced various issues running the NFS installer. Manual install (just the extension) solved everything on my side...
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It worked! Thank you so much! I spent the better part of three days trying to figure this out before knuckling under and asking for help. Am very glad I finally asked.
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And then of course I update the software on my server computer to Tahoe and it stops working. That'll teach me.
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The system upgrade surely messed up the NFS Manager settings and maybe Firewall settings as well. Can't help you as I'm still on Sonoma.
NB: System upgrade with MacOS? ==> loss of settings, lots of third party apps that no longer work ==> loss of time, money and capacities
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You were right about loss of time. But I got it working although some of what I did remains murky. First, there is an updated NFS Manager version 6.0. That helped a lot but I still had to change the server path as Tahoe renamed my computer. Also I had to change my firewall setting. But everything seems to work now.
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there is an updated NFS Manager version 6.0. That helped a lot but I still had to change the server path as Tahoe renamed my computer. Also I had to change my firewall setting. But everything seems to work now.
Glad to know your NFS transfer capacity has been restored.
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Didn't read this until now. Glad you got it working! :)