From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 14 02:32:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA15590 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 02:32:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from colin.muc.de (root@colin.muc.de [193.174.4.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA15585 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 02:32:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tavari.muc.de ([193.174.4.22]) by colin.muc.de with SMTP id <86061-2>; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 11:32:09 +0200 Received: from [192.168.42.51] (aleisha [192.168.42.51]) by tavari.muc.de (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA13207; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 09:47:27 +0200 (CEST) X-Sender: lutz@mail Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19970613182840.52202@luke.pmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 09:44:41 +0200 To: Bob Willcox From: Lutz Albers Subject: Re: PCNFS access? What do you do?? Cc: hackers list Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id CAA15586 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bob Willcox wrote on 14.06.1997 PCNFS access? What do you do?? >What do you people do about allowing PCs to access filesystems via >NFS? (I have some Windows 95 users that want to access my FreeBSD's >filesystems using some NFS client program (sorry, I don't know its >name).) > >I note that there is a flag in rc.conf (I'm running 2.2.2R) called >"weak_mountd_authentication" that results in the "-n" flag being >passed to mountd. Also, there is ap package called pcnfsd that >performs NFS authentication and print requests. Which does one >use? Are they both neccessary or are they mutually exclusive? They are both neccessary. BTW, why don't you install SAMBA on the FreeBSD machine and let the Win95 users use that (called Microsoft Networking). The performance should be far higher and it's free :-) ciao lutz -- Lutz Albers, lutz@muc.de, pgp key available from Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.