PCNFSD for Linux
Ed Boston
watching some of the discussions of Linux and would like to set it up,
but I would need this ability for my needs.
Ed
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Ari Lemmke
: In article <702.40...@hpbs938.boi.hp.com> ed.boston%ph...@hpbs938.boi.hp.com (Ed Boston) writes:
: >Does anyone know if there is a PCNFSD available for Linux? I have been
: >watching some of the discussions of Linux and would like to set it up,
: >but I would need this ability for my needs.
If someone writes pcnfsd ;-)
: I'll assume PCNFS is some sort of MS-DOS version of NFS...
Yes and more .. pcnfsd handles also printing (aaargh).
: correctly, you need to be able to use a Linux box as a NFS file server?
: Well there is a ALPHA-BETA nfsd for linux... It seems to be pretty stable
: and support for it is included in the SLS distribution.
No .. I'm not sure if it will work with pcnfs, I doubt.
Even though I have pcnfs kit (something old 2.x), I haven't
checked does it have source code also - they say it has
sources for pcnfsd. Then it would be only porting job,
I'm not sure if one is allowed to distribute the code ...
but if someone ports it to Linux, then patches could
be distributed.
: jem.
arl
Joachim Wiesel
>In article <1992Dec12.0...@samba.oit.unc.edu> j...@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
>: In article <702.40...@hpbs938.boi.hp.com> ed.boston%ph...@hpbs938.boi.hp.com (Ed Boston) writes:
>: >Does anyone know if there is a PCNFSD available for Linux? I have been
>: >watching some of the discussions of Linux and would like to set it up,
>: >but I would need this ability for my needs.
>
> If someone writes pcnfsd ;-)
>
>: I'll assume PCNFS is some sort of MS-DOS version of NFS...
>
> Yes and more .. pcnfsd handles also printing (aaargh).
pcnfsd is a daemon running on an NFS Server to implement:
- user authentification
- print spooling
for PC-NFS (or equivalent products, e.g. FTP's INTERDRIVE). The source code for
pcnfsd is normally distributed via the PC-product or can be FTP'ed over the net.
If you have a BSD-like network interface, porting should be trivial.
>: correctly, you need to be able to use a Linux box as a NFS file server?
>: Well there is a ALPHA-BETA nfsd for linux... It seems to be pretty stable
>: and support for it is included in the SLS distribution.
>
> No .. I'm not sure if it will work with pcnfs, I doubt.
> Even though I have pcnfs kit (something old 2.x), I haven't
> checked does it have source code also - they say it has
> sources for pcnfsd. Then it would be only porting job,
> I'm not sure if one is allowed to distribute the code ...
> but if someone ports it to Linux, then patches could
> be distributed.
As there are some version of the PCNFSD code on the net (look for Version 2) which
have been posted by SUN Microsystems, I guess that the code is freely distributable.
Joachim
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Doug Beattie
Sun's East Coast Group provides the PCNFSD daemon in source form that should
be available at bmc.tmc.edu. I believe that the latest release that Geoff,
Sun's Engineer, released was pcnfsd.92.11.05.tar.Z. If you have problems
getting one that should compile and work, let me know and I'll try to get
it to you.
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Martin Braun
Hello all,
I have compiled pcnfsd without major problems. You will need
the RPC - library port by Rick Sladkey (j...@world.std.com).
It is available as sunrpc-bin-4.0.tar.Z on many linux sites
in the ALPHA/NFS directory. Your kernel must have NFS - support
compiled in. I use the sources from SLS (0.98p5) with all patches
from the package lxpatchs.taz on disk b4 applied.
The changes to pcnfsd.c consist of checking some file and directory
names, supplying a mode in some
mkdir calls, declaring the crypt() function and changing the
type of free_list() to void.
To install pcnfsd on your system add it to your rc.net script
after the other NFS stuff. Remember to add your pc to /etc/exports
so that it is allowed to do mounts.
Since it has only been a short time that I've been using this,
I can't tell how stable it is. I couldn't get printing via NFS
to work yet (the jobs get queued but are truncated to length zero).
I'll post some more on this if there is interest.
Hope this helps,
Martin Braun
br...@physik.uni-kl.de