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 BrisqueMount application
• Using the NFS Manager tool

NFSManager is a small tool for easy access to the NFS features of Mac OS X. As an operating system with a Unix core, Mac OS X is able to support the Network File System (NFS) protocol according to internet specification RFC 1094. NFS is the accepted industry standard for sharing files between Unix systems.

Although NFS is a built-in component of Mac OS X, users cannot access this feature without special knowledge and use of the command-line. NFSManager solves this problem by providing an easy-to-use Aqua interface for the definition of NFS connections.

The NFSManager program helps to share files with other Unix systems. NFS is the industry standard among Unix computers for a network file sharing protocol developed by Sun Microsystems.

Your Mac OS X system can either:

• make folders available to the network so that they can be accessed by other Mac OS X or Unix computers. This is called an NFS export / NFS share.
• access folders of other Mac OS X or Unix systems and make them part of your local directory tree. This is called an NFS mount.

NFSManager does not do the actual network access itself. It only stores commands in a network database called NetInfo. All Mac OS X systems look for NFS definitions in the NetInfo database during startup. Then, the Darwin core of the Mac OS X operating system organizes the NFS mounts and exports based on the NFS entries found.

(Note: This information was taken from the NFS Tool Manager web site. For more information, see the See also section below).

Procedure

The NFS Manager tool enables you to mount the Macintosh volume on the Brisque via MountPro via the following options:

• via the IP address
• via DNS. 

From the NFS main menu, select Active Exports, otherwise ,the mount will not work. 

Note: When RIPing a PostScript in the Brisque and setting the Macintosh OSX volume as an output folder, the job arrives to the selected folder in the Mac OSX, and can be displayed successfully by PS/M.

The application can export only one volume at a time (always the first one). This is a NFS Manager limitation.

You must change read/write permissions from the Macintosh OSX terminal.

See also

http://www.bresink.com/osx/NFSmanager.html

Technical contact(s)

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

Submitted by

Tal Maizler

Date submitted

16 Jul 2002