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On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, Suhail Madoukh wrote:

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>
> I wonder if any of you has set up an NFS system using TCP/IP . If so I'd
> be very glad if he/she can tell me how .
> Right now we have PCs connected through thin coaxial only to a unix host
> Any help will be appreciated .
>
> Very truly yours
> Suhail M. Madouh
> suhail@iugaza.edu
My experience is more on the unix side and less on the PC side.  Here are
some starters:
1) On the unix side there are normally some daemons which need to be started
   for unix to serve up NFS.  On Ultrix and Solaris there is nfsd and mountd.
   basically mountd fields requests from remote machines (in this case PC) to
   mount the fs while nfsd are server processes for getting the data.
2) There is normally an file which indicates which files systems can be
   shared by what IP's and what kind of access they have.  On Ultrix
   the file is /etc/exports and can be edited via your favorite editor on
   Solaris it is /etc/dfs/shareable and manipulated via share.
Note: sometimes it is necessary to get the attention of mountd that a new
   configuration is in place.  This can be done on some systems via a
   kill -HUP pid where pid is the process id of the mountd
   or run /etc/init.d/nfs.server start (in solaris).
Note: Manual entries of these programs and files will fill in the details.

As far as the PC side goes I have little experience (unless your PC's are
running NetBSD, FreeBSD or Linux).  I know of PC-NFS product from SUN, and
I think Banyon Vines(sp) is another NFS product from another vendor which
allows PC's running DOS/Windows to get file services via NFS. I think
Windows-95 also has the ability to access NFS disks.  I think it can also
serve up local disks via NFS disks - BUT there is a major security problem
in that arrangement.

I would recommend reading the documentation which comes with your PC NFS
software.

johnh...