Quick update about on the 64 bit Apple NFS server problem

... We are happy campers. The 10.4.3 update appears to address our 32 bit backwards compatability issues! Here is the relevant text from the note I received about it:

"I tested the 10.4.3 update [on the Apple Xserve- Ed.] this morning. The new option "-32bitclients" is recognized on the NFS exports config file /etc/exports! Awesome! Although, I see no mention of it in the man page for exports for this "new" export option. A "mystery" option that you have to know about to use! ;-) I even did a "strings mount" to look for the option in the mount binary, nothing....

I ran the cthon04 "basic" tests on my Linux workstation [A please we knew had the 64 bit cookie problem- Ed.] and on [another Linux system that had the problem- Ed.]. Both systems that had issues with the NFSV3 64 bit "cookies" used by OSX 10.4.2. All tests, including "readdir", now pass when the "-32bitclients" option is used in the NFS export!"

This knocks down a major obsticale we had in using OS.X in file server roles, and also demonstrates some of my point about how things are catching up here at the 32 bit / 64 bit crossroads. The 2.6.13 Linux kernel'ed system didn't have the problem either, so it is being worked from both the client and the server side.

I imagine less heterogeneous places than ours will have an easier time of this.