Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 22:24:22 +0000 From: robmel@innotts.co.uk To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: rpc.lockd ?? Message-ID: <31869316.6C0F@innotts.co.uk>
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Dear FreeBSD people, We've been using a couple of freeBSD machines now for a while for mail, bootp, httpd, uucp, and routing. I want to migrate NFS services off my remaining SCO boxes onto BSD because it seems so much more reliable. NFS sharing is primarily for Windows 3.11 workstations via pcnfs. (Yes I know about samba, and we have evaluated it... but our users are very happy with existing NFS services, and we're reluctant to go over to WfWG -- it seems very insecure) The freeBSD NFS suite seems to lack the necessary rlockd daemon. I've been in correspondance with the author of a freeBSD port, but it is only a dummy, it always grants locks without actually doing anything. Is there, to your knowledge, a working port of this daemon for BSD? I have looked at the code with a view to writing at least cooperative locking, but I'm afraid my knowledge of rpc programming isn't that good and I fear I would have to spend many an hour getting up to speed on it. I hope you can help me... discovering freeBSD has been an enlightenment for this team... we've been slaving over hot SCO boxes for far too long... TIA Best regards Robin. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Melville, Addiction Information Services Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team Tel: +44 (0)115 952 9478 Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9421 work: robmel@nadt.org.uk home: robmel@innotts.co.uk WWW: http://www.innotts.co.uk/suba (UK substance misuse pages) ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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