FCP X “Add SAN Location” to any shared storage system

[John Heagy]

[Jeremy Garchow] “What if it’s a Windows server?”

A Windows server can export an NFS share but it requires addition software both free and paid via Microsoft are available.

John

[Jeremy Garchow]

Thank you, John.

Have you tried this NFS method, in general, yet?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Bob Zelin] “never tried it. Most people have Mac Pro’s, and it’s really nothing to setup a shared storage environment, all OS X based, without issue. Why go thru the aggravation of an NTFS file server, when you can have everything OS X from beginning to end. “

Because, perhaps, someone like me, may be sitting on a giant wad of really fast storage all packaged up in a Windows unit.

It’s sacrilege, but I’m OK with it.

[John Davidson]

This is working on Mavericks. Shared tags are not working though, but I suspect that’s because the server is still on Mountain Lion.
We have one last Mac Pro besides the server to upgrade to Mavericks and we’re good.

And we’re officially dumping sparse disk images from this point on.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Heagy]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Have you tried this NFS method, in general, yet?”

Only as an experiment… we’re not using FCPX generally.

[Bob Zelin]

yes – NFS in Mavericks for the server is NOT working. At least with Bresink.

Now, in a post above this one, John Heagy at NFL Films says that he is able to enable NFS on an OS X 10.9 Mavericks computer. I have requested that he posts the information on exactly how to do this (which is just a few lines of unix code that is typed into the terminal of the Mac) – I am hoping that John Heagy will be generous enough to share this information.

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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