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From: jesse@rlgvax.Reston.ICL.COM (Jesse Barber)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Multiple NFS Peripheral Drives
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.174510.26791@rlgvax.Reston.ICL.COM>
Date: 3 Jun 91 17:45:10 GMT
References: <1991May23.111207.11734@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> <1991May23.233849.17808@trl.oz.au>
Reply-To: jesse@rlgvax.Reston.ICL.COM (Jesse Barber,OSGD,3443,)
Organization: International Computers Limited, Reston, Virginia, USA
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In article <1991May23.233849.17808@trl.oz.au> craick@titan.trl.OZ.AU (John Craick) writes:
>cnar13@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:
>
>
>>    What I want to know is if there is any way of configuring NFS
>>    so that it recognises drives mounted on different hosts (or
>>    is it the case that only one NFS Daemon can be specified?)
>
>
>There might be problems if you have different user names or passwords on
>the different hosts (as I do) but there are ways around that as well.
>
PCNFS does not have to be told about NFS daemons, only about PCNFS daemons,
which handle authetication, and some other odds and ends. PCNFS assumes that
there is one name space for the network, by assuming that the numeric user
id it gets from the net pcnfsd specified host is the same across the network.
Thus, for all mounted drives, it uses the same user id to determine
permissions. If you don't use the NIS (or yellow pages), this means that 
the passwd file must be the same on each individual host for all users of
PCNFS. If this is not the case, you could see the problems the first
poster alluded to.
-- 
Jesse Barber
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