From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 13 12:08:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA15220 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:08:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA15215 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:08:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA02391; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:08:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:08:23 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Mark Mayo cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS questions... In-Reply-To: <19971111004533.53437@vmunix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Mark Mayo wrote: > Hi, just some simple NFS questions. > > I'm currently setting up a FreeBSD fileserver in a mixed environment - > most of the clients will be FreeBSD machines, but there will > also be a few NetBSD-1.2(sparc) machines, as well as a couple > Digital Unix 3.2G machines.. The DEC Unix machine in particular > I know only does NFS v2. Will the FreeBSD server be able to > simulaneosly serve to v2 and v3 clients? It should. > On a related note, does the FreeBSD NFS server default to > version 3 over TCP if started with the -t -u flags? > Obviously, I want the FreeBSD machine to mount with v3 over > TCP, whereas the DEC Unix machine will be v2 over UDP.. Yes. > Also, I'm planning on using NIS for distributed user authentication. > Does FreeBSD do NIS+ yet?? The thought of destroying the > shadowed passwd database with normal NIS irks me, even though > this network will be inside a firewall. Not that I know of yet. > Kerberos is looking like an option, the only problem is that I > need to sync the user info from the main file server over to > the mail server.. arghh... :-) Good luck, I'm not in the know on kerberos. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major