Introducing the (PC)NFS daemon

What the daemon does

The filer pcnfsd authentication daemon enables clients running a (PC)NFS client to access a volumes and directories on the filer.

(PC)NFS refers to NFS client implementations for DOS, Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, and Macintosh operating systems.

NFS protocol must be licensed

The pcnfsd daemon can run on the filer only if the NFS protocol is licensed. If the NFS protocol is not licensed, the following warning messages appear:

pcnfsd is NOT running

Cannot use pcnfsd without nfs.

(Use the "nfs on" command to enable nfs.) 

What (PC)NFS clients can do

Using (PC)NFS, clients can mount volumes and directories from the filer after the user provides the UNIX user name and password for authentication.

Clients must be configured to mount the filer.

Alternate access method for (PC)NFS clients

If you want (PC)NFS clients to be able to access filer volumes and directories but you do not want to run the pcnfsd daemon on the filer, you must set up another host to provide the (PC)NFS authentication.

(PC)NFS version 2 supported

The filer supports (PC)NFS version 2, except for printer support. With (PC)NFS version 2, clients can use the filer for authentication, including obtaining group permissions (GIDs) and group names through the /etc/group file or the corresponding group.byname NIS map.

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Last updated: 04/26/99 08:11:30