Chapter 12: Configuring the Network File System (NFS)
Table of contents
Chapter 12: Configuring the Network File System (NFS)
The Filesystem Manager interface
Authorization
How NFS works
Distributed filesystems
About exporting and importing filesystems
Filesystems supported by SCO NFS
About mounting and unmounting NFS filesystems
Incompatibilities with distributed filesystems
NFS server and client daemons
NFS configuration files
About managing user accounts
Remote file locking
The lockd daemon
The statd daemon
Enabling NFS
Starting/stopping NFS
Configuring the Network Lock Manager (NLM)
Setting block timeout
Setting the grace period
Allocating additional server lockd daemons
Adding and removing mount configuration
Modifying filesystem mount configuration
Enabling users to mount filesystems
NFS filesystem advanced mount options
Mounting and unmounting filesystems
Adding, modifying and removing filesystem export configuration
Setting export access permissions
Setting anonymous access permissions
Exporting and unexporting filesystems
Troubleshooting NFS
Network and server problems
rnode table overflow
Remote mount failed
Programs are hung
Everything works slowly
Validation errors
Nonexistent NFS server
Troubleshooting failed lock requests
Clock skew in user programs