On Thursday, 04/10/2008 at 01:11 EDT, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On a Linux 2.6 kernel (I'm using RHEL 5), how is the pcnfsd daemon > > started? > > You don't run pcnfsd on the client; pcnfsd has to run on the server > side. It's a hack to allow non-Unix systems to authenticate a connection > from a non-Unix system and get a valid numeric UID so that NFS security > works.
One of the major defects of the NFS protocol: Unix NFS daemons inexplicably believe whatever the client tells them. > You need to get the mountpw command (source is provided by IBM) and run > it prior to trying to mount the filesystem on the Linux guest. Mountpw > allows you to supply a VM userid and pw to authenticate the client, > which will then use the authentication token created by mountpw when the > actual mount request comes in. Gaaack. Are you saying that Linux doesn't support PCNFS as a client? Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
