Chapter 14: Configuring the Network File System (NFS)

Table of contents

• Chapter 14: 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
    • Slow network adapters
    • 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