From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 04:34:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA02557 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:22:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA02496 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:22:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.okbmei.msk.su (ns.okbmei.msk.su [194.190.170.40]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id XAA21914 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 23:03:52 -0800 Received: from kiae.UUCP by ns.okbmei.msk.su with UUCP id AA03220 (5.67c8/IDA-1.5); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:46:36 +0300 Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by sequent.kiae.su with SMTP id AA10238 (5.65.kiae-2 for ); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:38:18 +0300 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA01405 Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:58:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA01206 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:57:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.okbmei.msk.su (ns.okbmei.msk.su [194.190.170.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA01200 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:56:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from kiae.UUCP by ns.okbmei.msk.su with UUCP id AA01618 (5.67c8/IDA-1.5); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 05:43:53 +0300 Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by sovcom.kiae.su with SMTP id AA23164 (5.65.kiae-1 for ); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 05:21:37 +0300 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA22354 Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:10:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA22212 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:08:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA21984 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:05:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA04512; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:38:17 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603080108.LAA04512@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Need rpc.rlockd -- any chance of finding it? To: robmel@innotts.co.uk (Robin Melville) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:38:16 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Robin Melville" at Mar 7, 96 08:56:43 pm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Charset: KOI8-R X-Char-Esc: 29 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 [[