Apple releases Catalina 10.15 GM seed to developers for testing

nicholfd

jmerrilljr said:

File sharing seems to be locked down except for whatever is in your public folder. My first Mac was a Centris 650. This is very wrong.

File sharing works for me the same as it does for Mojave - it is not locked down to only the public folder.  

I'm using AFP & SMB from Sharing in System Settings for FULL home directories, and NFS, both ways, manually configured in the terminal.  I use NFS via auto mount at /net, and have some local directories shared via NFS.

There are some security restrictions on the root directory that you have to be aware of.  I'm not sure where/how/what you're trying to share via NFS, that you are having difficulty with.

jmerrilljr

My media player is Kodi. I have Kodi installed on two media players and the problem occurs on each. They are a linux hybrid called libreelec and an android tv player called  shield tv.  I use the zeroconf/nfs protocol and this has worked for several years until Catalina.

Check that nfs is enabled:
jXXXX@Johns-iMac ~ % sudo nfsd enable
The nfsd service is already enabled.

The etc/exports file:
/Volumes/newMedia/TV -ro
/Volumes/newMedia/Movies -ro
/System/Volumes/Data/Users/jXXXXXX/Public/TV -ro

Confirm that sharing is properly enabled:
% showmount -e
Exports list on localhost:
/System/Volumes/Data/Users/jxxxx/Public/TV Everyone
/Volumes/newMedia/TV        Everyone
/Volumes/newMedia/Movies     Everyone

Kodi can access the media in my public directory. It "see" the other volumes but can't access the media.

So maybe this is a Kodi issue.

razorpit

disneylandman said:

razorpit said:

MisterKit said:

I wonder if a new Mac shipping with Catalina could be rolled back to an earlier version. It’s a little over my head whether the built in security chips would not allow a rollback.

Were you ever able to do that? I don't think you were, at least in the modern (Intel) era.

Of course you could. But you needed the original OS.  The mid 2011 iMac shipped with Snow Leopard in May 2011, but after July, they started shipping with Lion.  With copies of the original Snow Leopard disks, you could roll it back.  You could easily roll back any Mac to a prior version, especially with the version right after the original release version and prior to the current.  My 2015 MacBook Pro can run any version from Yosemite forward.  Even when Apple started shipping them with El Capitan, you could still go back to Yosemite, which was its original OS.  So current models with Mojave and soon to be sold with Catalina can be rolled back if you have a copy of Mojave.  But when the new models ship with Catalina as the original OS, then no. 

In your example you have a machine running a version of the OS that at one time was shipped on that system. In your example could you install Leopard on a machine that shipped with Snow Leopard?

I agree that right now you could go back to Mojave on any of the current machines, but what if they revise all the hardware in November? Would those machines be able to roll back since those new machines never came with Mojave?