Section B: Configuring a filer for (PC)NFS

About configuring a filer for (PC)NFS

Section contents

This section describes how to use the (PC)NFS daemon that is supplied with the NFS protocol. The daemon enables DOS, Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, and Macintosh clients that run (PC)NFS client software to access filer volumes and directories. It includes the topics listed in the following table.


Topic	Describes...
"Introducing the (PC)NFS daemon"	What the daemon is. What the daemon does.
"Enabling the daemon"	How to start the pcnfsd daemon. How to have the filer start the daemon automatically whenever the filer is rebooted.
"Setting up (PC)NFS user entries"	The requirement that users have entries in the /etc/password file and, optionally, the /etc/shadow file on a UNIX host. How to copy the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files from a UNIX host to the filer.
"Setting the default umask"	What the umask is. What the umask does. What values you can use in the umask. The syntax for the `options.pcnfsd umask` command.

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