Product

Brisque 4.x

Platform

Brisque 4.x:

• E30 - Victory
• 43P-140 Tiger 1
• 43P-150 Tiger 2
• F50 - Wildcat (2 and 4 CPUs)
• 44P-170 Hammerhead
• 6F1 Condor (2, 4, and 6 CPUs)

Macintosh

Operating system

IBM AIX 4.2.1 and IBM AIX 4.3.3

Macintosh OS 10.1.4

Background

• Creating a server connection using Apple talk
• Mounting Brisque as NFS on Mac OSX
• Using the Brisque Mount application
• Using the NFS Manager tool

Benefits to NFS

• Mac can see files that have more than 32 characters on the file name.
• much more faster connection avoiding AppleTalk (Unix to Unix connection).

Limitation to NFS

• Mac needs a static address (manually added):
• Avoid using invalid characters when naming your Mac (use only 1 to 9, A to Z and _ (underscores)).

Procedure

Mounting Brisque as a NFS on MacOSX

When mounting Brisque volumes via NFS, you  must know the exact address and make sure that the TCP/IP is active. 

On the Macintosh:

1. Choose Apple Menu > System Preferences.
2. In the System Preferences dialog box, double-click on Network.
3. In the Network dialog box, in the TCP/IP tab check the IP address.
4. Choose the Apple Menu > System preferences > Sharing.
5. In the Sharing dialog box, in the File & Web tab, in the Computer name box, check the Macintosh name, and in the IP Addresss box, check the IP address.

On the Brisque

1. Add the Mac to the host table using the IP and Macintosh name:
1. In Cdesci, open the terminal window as: Username: root 
   Password: ripro
2. At the prompt, type:

Smit (sp) hosts (enter)

3. Click Add a host.
4. In the Host dialog box, in the IP box, type the IP address for the Macintosh
5. In the Hostname box, type the Macintosh name (case sensitive).
6. Click Done.
7. Click Cancel.
8. Exit Smit.

1. From the Go menu, choose Connect to server.
2. In the Connect to server dialog box, in the At box, select AppleTalk.
3. In the Address box, type:
   nfs://brisqueaddress(this is your brisque IP)/dataVolumes/BrisqueX.X.0(this is the volume you want to mount) (enter)

   For example, nfs://10.2.26.67/dataVolume/Brisque98.1.0 (enter)

4. Click Connect.
5. Type in the regular username/password (macuser) to logon to the Brisque.
6. The Brisque will mount on your desktop.
7. From your desktop, double-click on the Brisque icon and press Command+I (get info). 
8. In the Information dialog box, in the Format tab make sure that the connection reads as "NFS".

You can add the Brisque to your favorites, create an alias, add it to your startup items and so on.

Technical contact(s)

Content owner: Viki Bar On
See the Escalation page for escalation contacts.

Submitted by

Tal Maizler

Date submitted

16 Jul 2002