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From: geoff@bodleian.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Connectathon & PCNFSD
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Date: 5 Mar 91 23:00:57 GMT
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Organization: Sun Microsystems PC-NFS Engineering
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Would any NFS developer who:
(1) reads this group [ok, cute, that's redundant, right?]
(2) is going to be at the [San Jose] Connectathon later this month, and
(3) has any interest in PCNFSD

please drop me email. I'm planning to bring along a development-quality
snapshot of source for the next PCNFSD, and want to get together one
evening to go over it in detail. (I'll be at Connectathon 3/18 to
3/22.) I guess the reason I'm posting this in a public forum is to
underline the fact that we're really going to do it, finally, and
anyone who has input but hasn't mailed it to me yet has only a few days
left.

I already know that people want:

- authentication to retrieve all GIDs and home directory info
- printer browsing
- print queue listing and job cancellation
- UID/GID to username/groupname mapping (instead of using NIS)
- hooks for custom extensions without having to rewhack the protocol

I won't be including anything about locking: the locking protocol
is published and stable (even if there's more work to do on the
actual implementation). Similarly I don't believe that PCNFSD is the
place to do software license control. I don't have ANY input on
Mac-related features, so I haven't included any.... :-(

My intent is to bring code that will build and run on SunOS 4.1 and
SVR4. I don't plan on breaking the 386/ix and other SVR3  variations
that many people have contributed, but I may not get around to testing
them before Connectathon. It should be a little easier to port the new
stuff, since it's going to be done "right" this time, with a .x file
and rpcgen'ned stubs.

Stay tuned

Geoff
-- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM)   --
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