pcnfsd(1M) — ADMINISTRATOR COMMANDS
NAME
pcnfsd - pc-nfs authentication and print spooling daemon
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/nfs/pcnfsd [-d] [-s spooldir] [-u]
DESCRIPTION
pcnfsd processes authentication and print spool requests from MS-DOS clients running Sun Microsystem’s PC-NFS. These requests, and their responses, are forwarded through the RPC/XDR(3N) package. Upon receipt of an authentication request, pcnfsd consults the server’s password file and verifies that the password sent from the MS-DOS client matches that on the local machine. An acceptance or rejection message is then sent back to the client. The account’s uid/gid pair is also returned if authentication succeeds. If the account in question does not exist, then authentication fails.
Print spooling consists of two services: spooling initialization and start print. When the server receives an initialization request, a path name for the print spool directory is assembled from spooldir and the client machine’s name. This path is returned to the client. The client then NFS mounts this directory. When a spool file is ready to print, the start print request is sent to the server. The server then sends the file to the print spooling subsystem.
If the host handling pcnfsd service crashes, RPC timeout messages will be returned to the user when the above requests are generated.
OPTIONS
−d Turn on debugging mode. Status messages are returned to the console terminal.
−s spooldir
Pcnfsd will use spooldir instead of /usr/spool/pcnfs as the base spooling directory. This option is only available when pcnfsd is run as a daemon.
−u If this option is specified then Pcnfsd uses lpr(1) for printing services otherwise it uses lp(1).