Adding NFS support to supported platforms

[clone1018]

Please test on various platforms. Can confirm Mac works out of the box and that windows falls back.

To Do

• test windows - @clone1018
• test ubuntu - @patcon (12.04)
• doc ubuntu issues
• test mac - @clone1018

[clone1018]

cc: @seanlinsley @rummik @duckinator @patcon (various platforms)

[seanlinsley]

@abnor please also test this; I think you're the only person using Windows

[seanlinsley]

Ah... I forgot to link to the Vagrant section from the TOC earlier. Would you mind adding it?

[chadwhitacre]

Maybe @joeyespo could test this on Windows for us?

[patcon]

Seems that NFS doesn't work on ubunutu pre-1.5.2, so we might want to add a check for that in the vagrantfile to save us and others hassle of troubleshooting
https://meta.discourse.org/t/vagrant-error-on-this-command-vagrant-up-when-it-tries-to-mount-to-nfs-server/14047/10

[patcon]

Ah, ok, so apparently that comment is a lie, and NFS is not working, at least on ubuntu 12.04.

I had to run this: sudo ln -s /usr/sbin/exportfs /usr/bin/exportfs

[patcon]

Hm. Odd. So I still have the an issue when I fix that, but heard the advice that it only has an affect in my home directory. When I clone the repo into /tmp, it works fine. I'm trying to remember if my home directory is encrpyted...

(I'm on precise by the way.)

[patcon]

Yep, I'm using ecryptfs (default ubuntu home encryption) and NFS doesn't work :/
http://serverfault.com/questions/409639/nfs-with-encrypted-ubuntu-home-directory

I thought I was being clever turning that on, but I'll investigate a workaround

[patcon]

Ok, got it working by setting up a new directory for my repos outside $HOME

Not sure what the solution is -- do we just make it easily toggleable in case someone doesn't want to troubleshoot NFS?

[patcon]

officially working on ubuntu, with above caveats 👍

[patcon]

+1 to merge