Client connect to NFS server as user?

[Bob Goodwin]

Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 15:38 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>   
>> Craig White wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 09:27 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> How can I connect as user bobg, do I have to be root?
>>>>
>>>>     [bobg at box9 ~]$ mount.nfs box48:/home/NFS-files  /mnt/home
>>>>     mount.nfs: permission denied: no match for /mnt/home found in /etc/fstab
>>>>
>>>> It looks as though I've missed something here ...
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> ----
>>> you would have to have an entry in /etc/fstab that specified this as a
>>> 'user' mount
>>>
>>> something like this...
>>>
>>> my.nfs.server:/mnt/home  /home/NFS-files    nfs     user    0 0
>>>
>>> but the truth is that using automounts such as /etc/auto.home
>>> or /auto.misc is even better
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>             Ok, thanks, I just need to know what my options are. Should
>>             have suspected "fstab" and I will look at auto.home and
>>             auto.misc ...
>>
>>             I'm presently struggling with an Apple Mac, completely
>>             foreign to me! If only I can find a "terminal" with a
>>             command line.
>>     
> ----
> Terminal.app
>
> /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app
>
> Craig
>
>
>   

Yes thanks, I googled that. I find nothing intuitive about their GUI.

Bob