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2019-10-12, 23:00
(This post was last modified: 2019-10-12, 23:03 by sobarber.)
OK, I figured out the NFS changes on Catalina. You have to do the edits to the plist from the Terminal started in the Recovery OS mode with the SIP disabled.
In the RecoveryOS, the boot volume will be mounted as "/Volumes/{Root Volume Name}" so the root volume is called "Macintosh HD" then the boot volume would be mounted as "/Volumes/Macintosh HD"
The file to edit would be "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.nfsd.plist"
And then you can reenable SIP before you reboot.
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I'm glad I have no intention of EVER using Catalina (which destroyed 32-bit support as well, which meant Photoshop CS3, iZotope RX and Microsoft Office 2012 here, none of which I want to pay to replace, let alone "rent" from the newer "Cloud" versions by Adobe and Microsoft). I'm very unhappy with Apple on this and the lemmings on the Mac boards couldn't care less what Apple does. They only use Facebook and Facetime anyway and the horrible Safari browser. Hell, Mojave has issues for me as it is (fails to boot without going into safe mode every so often and doing a diskutil update Preboot command (no idea how it loses this over time, but I bet it has something to do with Boot Camp never getting an update as well in regards to APFS, although Windows 10 on it never fails to boot and SMB3 works religiously there while I sometimes get the odd "pause" from the Mojave server unless I reset it (turn off/on) after a reboot and then it seems good until the next reboot. Frankly, El Capitan worked much more reliably, but I'm on a timer as it is for browsers, etc. continuing to work. Microsoft is no picnic with their screwy updates either. The days of a nice reliable server seem to be over. The NVidia Shield firmware update seems to have brought back the dreaded "stops for no reason" issue on top of all that that previously went away on it by turning CEC commands OFF. So either they've reenabled something not in the list internally or god knows what (shakes head).
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2019-10-26, 12:28
(This post was last modified: 2019-10-26, 16:41 by teomor.)
I am also getting a “error probing input format” in the log file, and the movies won’t start playing. Also, adding the network share and browsing through the folders takes forever when setting it up.
I am doing this on a Mac with Catalina accessing another Mac with Catalina, through Samba share..
The same share is fully accessible and working perfectly on my Apple TV (Infuse Pro - set up as Samba share also) so I don’t think the actual share is the issue here.
LE: If anyone's interested, I got it to work by adding the share through the "Volumes" option. Just went there and found the shared folder right there (after first creating an alias for it in Finder - but not sure that's even necessary because I deleted it later and the share still works now).
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So this is the thread where all the Mac pros hang out? I am a brand new convert (or aspiring convert, I should say) from Windows. Couldn't resist the overwhelmingly positive reviews of the M1's performance and figured it would take several years for Intel to catch up with this kind of silicon, which only means that Apple will keep growing its market share, and it was finally time to leave Windows.
Well, I've had a very tough first 24 hours with my new Macbook Pro. The learning curve is insane, and all my workflows have been turned upside down. To ease the transition, I've tried to make it feel like Windows as much as possible by using my existing keyboard and mouse, but the design differences in the two OS's are just too fundamental. The hardware is mind-blowing, but the OS is causing me a lot of pain. Spent $20 right away on a NTFS-mounting app and will probably spend more on various other solutions to further reduce friction.
Back on topic, one of my biggest dependencies was Kodi (streaming content to Nvidia Shield) and after several hours, I've finally gotten it to work by forcing SMB1 and making some odd and unintuitive selections in System preferences. I did cheat by assigning my old Windows PC's static IP to the Macbook in router settings to avoid the library being duplicated, which happened to me at least twice in the past.
I hope that as the Mac market share continues to grow, we do get a more robust and secure sharing solution that doesn't require being a Unix expert to set up. I am nowhere near the required level of understanding of MacOS to try the NFS method right now, and it seems these setups break with version upgrades anyway.
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Most of the differences on Macs from Windows are easier to do on Macs. Other things are surprisingly similar (i.e. I had no real trouble adjusting either way over the years). The biggest difference is COMMAND-C (Apple icon on Apple keyboards) instead of Control-C and installing and deleting programs are usually drag and drop on the Mac (yeah drag to trashcan to delete; no uninstall program to run normally). Of course, there are exceptions to that with a few programs, but that's the norm.
Apple has made getting up NFS on a Mac a PITA in more recent years with their removal of their own install (used to come with server tools) and then that security boot crap nonsense that won't let you modify system files without jumping through boot plus Shell hoops. Even if you turn it off, updates reenable it. They probably got even more crappy on recent OS updates (My Intel Mac Mini was never updated to the OS version that broke 32-bit apps since I have some very expensive pro apps that are 32-bit and I'm not renting Photoshop!
I've got it set up here to also boot Windows 10 and have software on both operating systems to read and write each others drives. Until last KODI Matrix I could boot to either OS and my KODI players around the house wouldn't know or care which OS I was on as the media drives were available on both. The more recent requirement to have an actual stupid login name and password to set up SMB (never used to need it and the Mac certainly doesn't at all require it to access media shared locally) may have screwed that up (haven't booted into Windows in like 2 years now). It's easy to create a dummy account on the Mac to just allow media access, but I'm less sure what to do on Windows. It doesn't seem worth the bother given how little I use Windows anymore.
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Edit how?
