Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:38:16 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: robmel@innotts.co.uk (Robin Melville) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need rpc.rlockd -- any chance of finding it? Message-ID: <199603080108.LAA04512@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <v01530500ad64fd45f8c0@[194.176.128.180]> from "Robin Melville" at Mar 7, 96 08:56:43 pm
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Robin Melville stands accused of saying: > > The NFS clients are on PCs and Macintoshes, so I installed the pcnfs daemon= > from the BSD packages. This works fine. Trouble is, the PC software wants= > to lock active files over the net. I can't find any reference anywhere for= > a "lockd" daemon for the BSD NFS implementation. Neither is there an entry= > for it in the inetd.conf file. Can you clue me in on this? Does BSD unix= > not do this at all? There are two answers here : The first is : Abandon NFS for your PCs (and if possible, Macs as well). I would _strongly_ advise experimenting with the 'samba' package that's in the ports collection. This will provide markedly superior performance, and as a side effect, get around the original problem. For the Macs the solution is a little murkier. There may be SMB clients for the Mac as well, alternatively there's at least one, if not two Appletalk servers that work under FreeBSD. The second answer is : rpc.lockd is under development for FreeBSD. Sun don't document the protocol, and it would take serious money to get such information. There's an implementation of it in FreeBSD-current, but I'm not sure whether it would build and run under -stable or 2.1R. > Robin Melville, Addiction Information Services = -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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