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NAME
nfsserver, portmapper, pcnfsd - NFS service
SYNOPSIS
aux/nfsserver [ rpc-options... ] [ nfs-options... ]
aux/pcnfsd [ rpc-options... ]
aux/portmapper [ rpc-options... ]
DESCRIPTION
These programs collectively provide NFS access to Plan 9 file servers.
Nfsserver, pcnfsd, and portmapper run on a Plan 9 CPU server, and
should be started in that order. All users on client machines have the
access privileges of the Plan 9 user Currently only NFS version 2 is
served.
The rpc-options are all intended for debugging:
-r Reject: answer all RPC requests by returning the AUTH_TOOWEAK
error.
-v Verbose: show all RPC calls and internal program state, in‐
cluding 9P messages. (In any case, the program creates a file
/srv/name.chat where name is that of the program; echoing or
into this file sets or clears the -v flag dynamically.)
-D Debug: show all RPC messages (at a lower level than -v). This
flag may be repeated to get more detail.
-C Turn off caching: do not answer RPC requests using the RPC re‐
ply cache.
The nfs-options are:
-a addr Set up NFS service for the 9P server at network address addr.
-f file Set up NFS service for the 9P server at file (typically an en‐
try in /srv).
-n Do not allow per-user authentication (default and mandatory).
-c file File contains the uid/gid map configuration. It is read at
startup and subsequently every hour (or if is echoed into
/srv/nfsserver.chat). Blank lines or lines beginning with are
ignored; lines beginning with are executed as commands; other‐
wise lines contain four fields separated by white space: a
regular expression (in the notation of regexp(6)) for a class
of servers, a regular expression for a class of clients, a
file of user id's (in the format of a Unix password file), and
a file of group id's (same format).
-s Expect a network connection on file descriptor 1 instead of
listening for incoming calls.
-t Listen for incoming TCP calls, rather than UDP calls.
NFS clients must be in the Plan 9 /lib/ndb database. The machine name
is deduced from the IP address via ndb/query. The machine name speci‐
fied in the NFS Unix credentials is completely ignored.
Pcnfsd is a toy program that authorizes PC-NFS clients. All clients
are mapped to uid=1, gid=1 (daemon on most systems) regardless of name
or password.
EXAMPLES
A simple /lib/ndb/nfs might contain:
!9fs tcp!ivy
.+ [^.]+\.cvrd\.hall\.edu /n/ivy/etc/passwd /n/ivy/etc/group
A typical entry in /rc/bin/cpurc might be:
aux/nfsserver -a tcp!pie -a tcp!yoshimi -c /lib/ndb/nfs
aux/pcnfsd
aux/portmapper
Assuming the CPU server's name is eduardo, the mount commands on the
client would be:
/etc/mount -o soft,intr eduardo:pie /n/pie
/etc/mount -o soft,intr eduardo:yoshimi /n/yoshimi
Note that a single instance of nfsserver may provide access to several
9P servers.
FILES
/lib/ndb/nfs
List of uid/gid maps.
/sys/log/nfs
Log file.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/9nfs
BUGS
It would be nice to provide authentication for users, but Unix systems
provide too low a level of security to be trusted in a Plan 9 world.
SEE ALSO
nfs(4)
RFC1057, RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification, Version 2,
describes Sun's RPC protocol.
RFC1094, NFS: Network File System Protocol Specification, describes NFS
version 2.
RFC1813, NFS Version 3 Protocol Specification.
RFC3530, Network File System (NFS) version 4 Protocol.
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