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From: ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth)
Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD as an NFS server
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Larry Granroth (ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu) wrote:
: : Try anonymous ftp to oak.oakland.edu in pub/msdos/nfs/xfs171.zip
Just a recap of a few tips on using NetBSD or FreeBSD as a server with
the above:
o Your kernel may need to be rebuilt to support NFS serving
o Make sure appropriate nfsiod and nfsd processes are started
o Remember to start mountd with the -n option
o Export the desired directories to the pc clients, including
/usr/spool/pcnfs (or whatever is configured as the print spool
directory). Note that it may not be possible to directly mount
subdirectories of exported directories without some patches.
o Get a current copy of Sun's pcnfsd distribution (from pcnfs
client distribution floppies, for example). There is a Makefile.bsd
which should work after you add -lcrypt to LIBS and manually
create a bsd subdirectory.
Also, someone mentioned patches to enable asynch writes to the NFS
server. I see how this can speed things up, but what difficulties might
it also cause? Is there a reference on this somewhere?
larry-granroth@uiowa.edu