[UniMacTech] need command to add new mounts via command line in ARD

[Andrew Wellington]

Sherry,

This information is written to the local Directory Services store on  
Mac OS X 10.5.

You can create the appropriate configuration by opening /Applications/ 
Utilities/Directory Utility.app and entering the mount in the "Mounts"  
tab (you might have to click "Show Advanced Settings" to see the  
mounts section).

This will create a plist in /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/mounts with  
your configuration. Note however that you shouldn't edit the files in  
here directly, you can use tools like dscl to edit this as appropriate.

Regards,
Andrew

On 02/07/2008, at 5:20 PM, Sherry Proferes wrote:
> We have to change some mounts in one of our labs and we are now  
> using 10.5. They are NFS mounts from a server, not mac, which I have  
> no access to. Can anyone tell me how to translate the command we  
> used for 10.4 to 10.5?
>
> Last year when we had 10.4 we used the niload command to add new  
> mounts via ARD as netinfo database was the way to go. This obviously  
> no longer works as Netinfo is no longer there.
> I cannot figure out how to do this with DS Utilities and need help.
> The old command was:
> Echo “servername.adelaide.du.au:/Whateverfiles/staff/users/home / 
> staff/home nfs resvport,rw,0 0” |niload fstab /

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