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From: wjw@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: PC-TCP and Apollo
Summary: Missing the PCNFSD
Keywords: PC, NFS, Authorisation.
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Date: 5 Dec 90 09:33:57 GMT
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In article <9012041421.AA03582@umix.cc.umich.edu> SRFERGU%ERENJ@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (Scott Ferguson) writes:
>
>I've got a product called PC-TCP for an IBM PS/2 Model 50 with an ethernet
>connection. It works fine using ftp and telnet, and the support is there for
>NFS.
>
>However, when I try to use the 'imount' command to mount another file system,
>the following happens:
>
>The PC side of the connection prompts me for a userid/passwd combo, and then
>trys to find an "Authentication Server", which is not running on the Apollo.
>
>Anyone know what it means by Authentication Server? Is there a daemon I should
>be running? Is it a standard part of the system release at 9.7? 10.2?
>
The NFS side on the UniX-system requires that the person requesting the files
has made himself know to that system. For this the Unix ID's are used, but
since a PC is a rather simple device ;-) it does not have any clues about it.
So it has to ask the UniX-box wat to use, hence the login-procedure.

The login is serviced by a deamon which comes with the SUN-PCNFS stuff.
I don't know weather there are any sources available for this.
I do know that once you really want to run this that more things have to be
ajusted ( read recompiled ) Before I went on vacation I remember recompiling
one of the parts of an PD-availble SUN package which is required for running
the whole ordeal.

It is not part of any system release, and I don't know if you can get it
to run on 9.7.

There's been a few articles on this "long" time ago. If you give me time enough
I can look them up. (We've got all comp.sys.apollo since march '90)

On the other hand are there people who have done this before. Maybe they could
come up with a read-do-ready-go paper, which will tell you: What to get and 
where. How to patch it. And How to install it.

Ciao
	Willem Jan Withagen.

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