This is one of those things that goes to show: it's easy if you know how.
I've got a zfs-based file server (currently using SmartOS) which uses NFSv4 shares. OSX can connect to NFS shares using "Connect To Server" from the finder" using a syntax like this:
nfs://nas.example.com/share_nameI've previously tried to use on my mbp but have never managed to get it to work in a stable fashion.
Then, this evening, I stumbled across the solution:
nfs://vers=4,nas.example.com/share_nameThat's all there is to it – I now have stable NFSv4 connections from my Mac!
Which version of OSX are you using?
On snow leopard, I’m getting this:
mount_nfs: sorry, you must specify vers=4.0alpha to use the alpha-quality NFSv4 supportThis was on Mountain Lion.
I tried running this on 10.8.4. It doesn’t work. I get permission denied error. Have you experienced that issue ?
Sounds like you need to make you have correct perms for the mount you are trying to access.
I’ve had nothing but pain getting ML to connect to NFSv4 shares. The mount is slow (circa 1 minute to complete the mount command from the terminal) but eventually succeeds. Thence forth the Mac becomes extremely slow to the point that the Mac eventually panics due to a spinlock timeout for some completely unrelated operation. During all this the CPU is practically idle and local disk reads/writes are negligible. There is something very wrong with ML’s NFSv4 implementation.
The server in my case is a Debian Linux machine to which linux clients connect fast and without any issues.
Worked beautifully for me! Other users could read what I had created but could not delete. chmod 777 only worked for existing files, not new ones. Mounting nfs://vers=4,10.0.1.12:/Footage fixed the issue for my office. Thanks for the help.