Windows Explorer right-click NAS folder to "Map Network Drive" and assign as X.

C:> wsl

ehowton@WSL:~$ sudo mkdir /mnt/x
ehowton@WSL:~$ sudo mount -t drvfs X: /mnt/x

ehowton@WSL:~$ cd /mnt/x
ehowton@WSL:/mnt/x$

I'm no scholar

• I was supposed to have recited the poem, "Paul Revere's Ride" to my class, but since I hadn't *actually* memorized it, I instead orated a very colorful retelling. The instructor was so enamored, I received an A.
  


• I always had a book with me in school. When not working on a project, I was reading a novel. All my book reports ( Read more... )

Leopard has changed many things. They're moving away from BSD and embracing a more POSIX outlook. Imagine my surprise when ps -aux returned an error and ps -aef worked instead. Remember all the frustration I had with trying to export an OSX filesystem to my Solaris box several years ago? Considering OSX has dumped that horrific NetInfo GUI for ( Read more... )

Brought up Toast on teh max0r and selected files from my nfs mounted Solaris volume to make a hard-copy DVD backup of my server, and to consider the possibility of using iTunes new built-in backup application. Toast couldn't read a good majority of my nfs mounted files, yet on the server side I ensured everything was world readable. I may try to ( Read more... )

The -P flag is what took me an hour to find. That and the fact that all documentation told me not to use the mount_nfs command, rather it would be called by the mount command. Ever since my E250 was hacked by Taiwanese spammers, I've kept my Solaris box locked down pretty tight - and having been away from the operating system for about a year, I ( Read more... )

OSX 10.4 Tiger is not an ideal operating system in which to run an NFS server. Well, at least not yet. I suppose that I'll continue to try and find the /exports syntax (or whatever it is this ex-BSD platform uses) but in the meantime, I did find a step-by-step guide which had me bring up, of all things, a GUI ( Read more... )