1. Open the Terminal.

1. From the Finder, go to Application > Utilities and double-click on Terminal.

2. Rename the local USA_DB and USADATA directories:

sudo mv /USA_DB /USA_DB.BAK

sudo mv /USADATA /USADATA.BAK

1. In the Finder, go to Application > Utilities and double-click on Disk Utility.

2. In Disk Utility, click on File > NFS Mounts.

The NFS Mounts window opens.

3. In NFS Mounts screen, click the plus (+) button on the lower-right corner.

4. In the Remote NFS URL field, type the following line. Replace [server name] by the name of the server. For example, if the server name is jarjar, you would type: nfs://jarjar/USA_DB.

nfs://[server name]/USA_DB

5. In the Mount Location field, type the following:

/Volumes/USA_DB

6. If the workstation is going to connect to a Linux server, edit the Advanced Mount Parameters:

resvport

7. Click Verify.

8. Click OK on the message that confirms that the NFS server is functional.

9. Repeat steps 3 to 8, but enter the following for the Remote NFS URL and Mount Location:

nfs://[server hostname]/USADATA

/Volumes/USADATA

10. Click Save and enter your user password to confirm the changes.

11. Quit the Disk Utility.

12. Open a new Terminal window.

13. Verify that the /USA_DB and /USADATA shared points have been mounted properly:

ls /Volumes/USA_DB

and

ls /Volumes/USADATA

14. Create symbolic links to the USA_DB and USADATA directories at the root level /

sudo ln -s /Volumes/USA_DB /USA_DB

sudo ln -s /Volumes/USADATA /USADATA

15. Verify that the symbolic links are pointing to the right directories:

ls -l /

The symbolic links for the /USA_DB and /USADATA should look like the following:

USADATA -> /Volumes/USADATA

USA_DB -> /Volumes/USA_DB