Chapter 3. Configuring NFS Clients to Access DFS
After you have configured at least one Gateway Server machine according to the instructions in “Chapter 2. Configuring Gateway Server Machines” on page 5, you can configure your NFS clients to provide access to the DFS filespace. Users who have DCE accounts can then authenticate to DCE for authenticated access to DFS from the NFS clients. Authenticating to DCE provides these users with the privileges and permissions associated with their DCE identities.
Configure each NFS client that is to provide access to DFS in one of the following ways, depending on how you configured your Gateway Server machines:
vIf you configured your Gateway Servers so that users cannot issue the dfs_login command to authenticate to DCE (configured your NFS clients without enabling DCE authentication via the dfs_login command), follow the instructions in “Configuring a Client Without Enabling Remote Authentication” on page 14.
vIf you configured your Gateway Servers so that users can issue the
dfs_login command to authenticate to DCE (configured your NFS clients and enable DCE authentication via the dfs_login command), follow the instructions in “Configuring a Client and Enabling Remote Authentication” on page 14.
Note: The dfs_login and dfs_logout commands are not provided with DFS; these commands can be used only if they are available from your NFS vendor and have been installed on an NFS client. If these commands are not available, use the dfsgw add and dfsgw delete commands, which work in a similar fashion. See your NFS vendor documentation for the availability and use of the dfs_login and dfs_logout commands.
Because the steps in each of these sections mount /... on an NFS client, users who do not have DCE accounts can still use the NFS client for unauthenticated access; see “Authenticated Access to DFS” on page 18 for more information about authenticated access.)
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