MacOS Ventura NFS -> SMB

[shire]

Hello,

after a good run over two years of accessing the NFS-share on my MacMini, NFS is dead again after upgrading to MacOS Ventura. Reinstalling Ventura doesn’t help. But a fresh install of MacOS Monterey on my system and I could access my NFS share from my Vero4k using the NFS Manager.

My question:

Would it be a better idea to use SMB accessing MacOS than NFS? I also tried this myself. I set a shared folder in the file sharing setting and gave my user (set up a new user as well) access to it. Using the Zeroconf-Browser I see my Mac. Clicking on it results in an error message (Operation not permitted).

Does anyone have a running setup of MacOS Ventura using SMB and a Vero4k and can give me a few tips to solve this problem?

Bye.

[shire]

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[shire]

Sounds great. I will try that.