NFS Services Administrator's Guide

Configuring and Administering NFS Services
Configuring and Administering an NFS Server
Chapter 270
To access the shared directory across a firewall using the WebNFS
feature, configure the firewall to allow connections to the port number
used by the nfsd daemon. By default the nfsd daemon uses port 2049.
Configure the firewall based on the port number configured.
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: