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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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mountd — Server for NFS Mount Requests and NFS Access Checks

Synopsis

/usr/lib/nfs/mountd [-v][-r]

Description

The mountd daemon is an RPC server that answers requests for NFS access information and file-system mount requests. It reads the /etc/dfs/sharetab file to determine which file systems are available for mounting by which remote machines. See sharetab(4). nfsd running on the local server contacts mountd the first time an NFS client tries to access the file system to determine whether the client should get read-write, read-only, or no access. This access can be dependent on the security mode used in the remote procedure call from the client. See share_nfs(1M).

mountd also provides information about what file systems are mounted by which ...

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