Cannot mount NFS shares using the Finder

Hello all!
I have a directory structure on a OpenSuse NFS Server which I like to browse/read using my MAC OSX 10.5.6. It works like a joy when I am mounting the NFS share on the command line using "sudo":
sudo mount -o resvport nfshost:/full/path/NFS/share /My/mount/point
However, this is kind of unconvenient as I need to start Terminal and sudo always asks me for the root password. I would appreciate to mount the NFS share just as I mount afp shares using the Finder. But the NFS share is neither searchable using the Finder nor does it show up in the list of host in the side bar of the Finder.
Does anyone has an idea how to solve that? Thx for your information!

The problem is most likely that your NFS server requires that connections come from reserved ports but you can't connect that way from the Finder GUI.
Your example:
sudo mount -o resvport nfshost:/full/path/NFS/share /My/mount/point
shows that you need to use "-o resvport" and that you need to do the mount as root. (This is because the networking stack requires you to be root to get a reserved port.) When you try to mount it via the Finder, you can't specify any mount options like "-o resvport" and even if you could the mount would fail because the Finder isn't running as root.
My first suggestion would be to change the configuration of your server to not require clients to use reserved ports for the NFS protocol. Unfortunately, Linux chooses to call that option "insecure" even though requiring the use of reserved ports (using "secure") doesn't actually make NFS more secure.
Alternatively, you could configure the mount to be performed by something that does do the mount as root - e.g. automount/autofs. You can do this by configuring the mount on Directory Utility's "Mounts" section... you'll want to add "resvport" to the "Advanced mount options" field.
HTH
--macko

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