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Setting Up PC-NFS
The PC-NFS server provides authentication and print services for personal
computers running PC-NFS. Users on a PC client can associate the name of the
PC printer with an OpenVMS print queue and print files to the associated queue.
To access the PC-NFS server, PC users must have an entry in the proxy database
and have corresponding OpenVMS accounts on the server.
This chapter describes:
• How to start up and shut down the PC-NFS server (Section 24.1)
• How to provide PC-NFS printing services (Section 24.2)
• How to manage PC-NFS print queues (Section 24.3)
• PC-NFS authentication (Section 24.4)
For information about setting up NFS proxy identities for PC-NFS client users,
see Chapter 20.
24.1 PC-NFS Startup and Shutdown
The PC-NFS server can be shut down and started up independently of TCP/IP
Services. This is useful when you change parameters or logical names that
require the service to be restarted.
The following files are provided:
• SYS$STARTUP:TCPIP$PCNFS_STARTUP.COM allows you to start up the
PC-NFS server independently.
• SYS$STARTUP:TCPIP$PCNFS_SHUTDOWN.COM allows you to shut down
the PC-NFS server independently.
To preserve site-specific parameter settings and commands, create the following
files. These files are not overwritten when you reinstall TCP/IP Services:
• SYS$STARTUP:TCPIP$PCNFS_SYSTARTUP.COM can be used as a
repository for site-specific definitions and parameters to be invoked when the
PC-NFS server is started.
• SYS$STARTUP:TCPIP$PCNFS_SYSHUTDOWN.COM can be used as a
repository for site-specific definitions and parameters to be invoked when the
PC-NFS server is shut down.
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