NFS Manager is a graphical user interface to control all built-in NFS features of Mac OS X. It can manage a whole network of Mac OS X computers to setup a distributed NFS file system via a few simple mouse clicks.NFS (Network File System) is the industry standard for file sharing on UNIX systems like Mac OS X. Each Mac OS X system can be setup as an NFS server to offer files to the network, or as an NFS client to access files shared by other computers. Different from other file sharing protocols built into Mac OS X, NFS has no limitations in the number of users or connections concurrently active. In addition, NFS can be setup to connect to servers fully automatically ("automounting") without any password entries being necessary.NFS Manager is designed to use the latest technologies available in Mac OS X, like Bonjour, Open Directory, or Kerberos. If your network is setup as a Kerberos realm, secure NFS with encrypted and authenticated connections can be configured.NOTE: For version 10.5 Leopard, Apple has replaced nearly all NFS features in Mac OS X by new versions. Unfortunately, some specific aspects of the new implementation are still incomplete yet and can be characterized as being "work in progress". NFS Manager 3 tries to support the current state of Apple's NFS implementation as good as possible, and will warn you when using features which are not implemented yet, or where limitations still apply. NFS Manager will be updated when more information about Apple's plans for NFS support in Mac OS X Leopard become known.What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]· This version completes full support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.· Added option pane to control settings of the network automounter of Mac OS X.· Added mount option to hide an NFS mount in the Finder.· Added mount option to automatically disconnect a server after it has been reported unresponsive for a specific time period.· Added mount option to suppress user interface messages that an NFS server is unresponsive if the server is reporting jukebox errors.· Added server configuration option to advertize NFS shares in the local Bonjour domain only.· Added server configuration option to define the hash table size for the list of NFS shares.· Added NFS status server configuration option to reject requests for simulated crashes.· Added feature to detect and repair a broken NFS server configuration if the server has been setup incorrectly with third-party tools or by manual intervention.· The security architecture has been modified to fulfill the latest security guidelines for Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard.· The graphical user interface has been enhanced.