Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!csn!spot.Colorado.EDU!cearley From: cearley@spot.Colorado.EDU (CEARLEY KENT) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: PCNFSD for a VAXstation3100 Message-ID: <1991Feb25.221821.22007@csn.org> Date: 25 Feb 91 22:18:21 GMT References: <30641@usc> Sender: news@csn.org (news) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: spot.colorado.edu >As I understand it, PC-NFS is a package which allows a PC to >access NFS services offered by any NFS host. You don't need to >change anything at the host-end. The PC is just another client. >So, as I see it, there is no such thing as a "PCNFSD" which will >run on the DEC box. PC-NFS actually goes through a secondary authorization process which requires a daemon on the host to accept a packet containing a userid and 'slightly' encrypted password and respond with a flag indicating if the user is authorized, as well as what uid and gid is assigned to the account. SUN distributes the source for this process freely, it is implemented using SUN's RPC/XDR libraries. I've recently run into this problem on my VAXstation 3100 running DEC's VMS/Ultrix Connection. I cannot compile suns daemon process, because the DEC UCX software provides an rpc library based on Apollo's implementation of the same procedures. If anyone has come across a way to map XDR onto NIDL I would be _very interested_!! I'm amazed that UCX implements NFS server and packages it with NCS rpc! Maybe there is a level of compatability there that is not immediately apparent. -Kent Cearley -University of Colorado Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com