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From: Andrew V. Stesin <stesin@post.elvisti.kiev.ua>
Subject: [FreeBSD] How to get NFS server for use with DOS softw?
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Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1993 10:55:07 GMT
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Hello, friends!
I'm just a novice in UNIX and networking, so excuse me for possibly
FA question.
I've got a little problem while screwing up a local NFS to my
FreeBSD 1.0-gamma system which I want to use as server. Clients are
expected to be 286 PC-s equipped with FTP Sw. PC/TCP 2.11 or maybe
Sun PC-NFS 5.0 packages - I hadn't decide yet which one to use.
I tested both these packages on 286; they behaved differently.
Here are the results:
Sun PC-NFS 5.0: while starting, PC program hangs up for a minute or two,
throwing packages to the network; then gives a message like
this: "Host xxxxx is not an authentication server" (xxxxx means
my FreeBSD's hostname); then the next message follows:
"There is no authentication server on the network";
but then it does a normal mount of network drive!
PC/TCP 2.11: crashes when doing an attempt to find, easy to guess,
authentication server.
I've found the source code of Sun pcnfsd; it must, imho, provide
the RPC service 150001, which I think to be the neccesary one, but it
didn't want to be compiled! And I dont know the internals of *BSD good
enough to understand how to fight with this (I'm studying mechanics, not
computing! :(
Please anybody explain me:
how can I add pcnfsd facilities to my system?
Why one of DOS packages works without it and the other crashes?
Maybe I'll need some more daemons, such as lockd, for normal work?
And the last: I've hear that somewhere in NFS code of FreeBSD kernel there
is a place where one can switch on delayed disk writing and increase
performance dramatically in such a risky way. I want to try this, but I don't
know exactly where shall I dig in.
Great thanks to everyone who've read this posting!
Great thanks to everyone who'll waste some time for answering!
Great thanks for any advise!
Andrew.