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NFS Server
The Network File System (NFS) server software lets you set up file systems on
your OpenVMS host for export to users on remote NFS client hosts. These files
and directories appear to the remote user to be on the remote host even though
they physically reside on the local system.
After the NFS server is installed on your computer, you must configure the server
to allow network file access.
This chapter reviews key NFS concepts and describes:
• How to start up and shut down the NFS server (Section 20.2)
• How to set up the NFS server in an OpenVMS cluster (Section 20.3)
• How to set up PC-NFS (Section 20.4)
• How to manage the MOUNT service (Section 20.5)
• How to register users and hosts (Section 20.6)
• How to back up the file system (Section 20.7)
• How to set up and export an OpenVMS file system (Section 20.8)
• How to set up and export a container file system (Section 20.9)
• How to manage a container file system (Section 20.10)
• How to set up and manage NFS security controls (Section 20.11)
• How to modify NFS server characteristics (Section 20.12)
• How to modify file system characteristics (Section 20.13)
• NFS file locking (Section 20.14)
• How to improve the performance of NFS operations (Section 20.15)
See Chapter 21 for information on managing the NFS client.
If your network includes PC clients, you may want to configure PC-NFS.
Section 20.1.9 and Section 20.4 provide more information.
20.1 Key Concepts
NFS software was originally developed on and used for UNIX machines. For this
reason, NFS implementations use UNIX style conventions and characteristics.
The rules and conventions that apply to UNIX files, file types, file names, file
ownership, and user identification also apply to NFS.
Because the TCP/IP Services product runs on OpenVMS, the NFS software must
accommodate the differences between UNIX and OpenVMS file systems, for
example, by converting file names and mapping file ownership information. You
must understand these differences to configure NFS properly on your system,
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