NFS Services Administrator's Guide (B.11.31.04) March 2009

Configuring an NFS Server for use by a PC NFS client
PC NFS is a protocol designed to perform the following functions:
• Allow PC users who do not have UNIX style credentials to authenticate to a UNIX
account
• Perform print spooling from a PC on to a UNIX server
Once a PC client has successfully authenticated itself on the NFS server, the PC uses
the MOUNT and NFS protocols to mount the filesystem and to read and write to a file.
You may want to create the /etc/pcnfsd.conf file for the following reasons:
• If the PC NFS client software assigns user IDs smaller than 101 or greater than
60002, you can set the uidrange in the /etc/pcnfsd.conf file to allow access
to a different range of user IDs, as in the following example:
uidrange 80-60005
• You want to provide PC users a different set of default print options. For example,
add an entry to the /etc/pcnfsd.conf file which defines raw as a default print
option for PC users submitting jobs to the printer lj3_2 as follows:
printer lj3_2 lj3_2 lp -dlj3_2 -oraw
The /etc/pcnfsd.conf file is read when the pcnfsd daemon starts. If you make
any changes to /etc/pcnfsd.conf file while pcnfsd is running, you must restart
pcnfsd before the changes take effect.
A PC must have NFS client software installed in order to use the system as a PC NFS
server.
The PCNFS_SERVER variable, configured using the /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf
file controls whether the pcnfsd daemon is started at system boot time. To configure
the server to automatically start pcnfsd during system boot, follow these steps:
1. In the /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf file, use a text editor to set the
PCNFS_SERVER variable to 1, as follows:
PCNFS_SERVER=1
2. To forcibly start the pcnfsd daemon while the server is running, run the following
command:
/sbin/init.d/nfs.server start
For more information on pcnfsd, see pcnfsd(1M).
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