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mountd(8) [netbsd man page]

MOUNTD(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						 MOUNTD(8)

NAME

     mountd -- service remote NFS mount requests

SYNOPSIS

     mountd [-dN] [-P policy] [-p port] [exportsfile]

DESCRIPTION

     mountd is the server for NFS mount requests from other client machines.  mountd listens for service requests at the port indicated in the NFS
     server specification; see Network File System Protocol Specification, RFC 1094, Appendix A and NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol
     Specification, Appendix I.

     Options and operands available for mountd:

     -d      Enable debugging mode.  mountd will not detach from the controlling terminal and will print debugging messages to stderr.

     -N      Do not require privileged ports for mount or NFS RPC calls.  This option is equivalent to specifying ``-noresvport -noresvmnt'' on
	     every export.  See exports(5) for more information.  Some operating systems (notably Mac OS X) require this option.

     -P policy
	     IPsec policy string, as described in ipsec_set_policy(3).	Multiple IPsec policy strings may be specified by using a semicolon as a
	     separator.  If conflicting policy strings are found in a single line, the last string will take effect.  If an invalid IPsec policy
	     string is used mountd logs an error message and terminates itself.

     -p port
	     Force mountd to bind to the given port.  If this option is not given, mountd may bind to every anonymous port (in the range 600-1023)
	     which causes trouble when trying to use NFS through a firewall.

     exportsfile
	     The exportsfile argument specifies an alternative location for the exports file.

     When mountd is started, it loads the export host addresses and options into the kernel using the nfssvc(2) system call.  After changing the
     exports file, a hangup signal should be sent to the mountd daemon to get it to reload the export information.  After sending the SIGHUP (kill
     -s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`), check the syslog output to see if mountd logged any parsing errors in the exports file.

     After receiving SIGTERM, mountd sends a broadcast request to remove the mount list from all the clients.  This can take a long time, since
     the broadcast request waits for each client to respond.

FILES

     /etc/exports	  the list of exported filesystems
     /var/run/mountd.pid  the pid of the currently running mountd
     /var/db/mountdtab	  the list of remotely mounted filesystems

SEE ALSO

     nfsstat(1), nfssvc(2), exports(5), nfsd(8), rpcbind(8), showmount(8)

HISTORY

     The mountd utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.

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								 November 2, 2011							       BSD

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NAME

       mountd - server for NFS mount requests and NFS access checks

SYNOPSIS

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

       mountd  is  an  RPC  server  that  answers  requests  for  NFS  access  information  and  file  system  mount  requests.  It reads the file
       /etc/dfs/sharetab to determine which file systems are available for mounting by which remote machines. See sharetab(4). nfsd running on the
       local  server  will  contact 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 remoted procedure call from the  client.
       See share_nfs(1M).

       The command also provides information as to what file systems are mounted by which clients. This information can be printed using the show-
       mount(1M) command.

       The mountd daemon is automatically invoked by share(1M).

       Only super user can run the mountd daemon.

       The options shown below are supported for NVSv2/v3 clients. They are not supported for Solaris NFSv4 clients.

       -r	Reject mount requests from clients. Clients that have file systems mounted will not be affected.

       -v	Run the command in verbose mode. Each time mountd determines what access a client should get, it will log the result to  the  con-
		sole, as well as how it got that result.

       /etc/dfs/sharetab       shared file system table

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWnfssu 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       nfsd(1M), share(1M), share_nfs(1M), showmount(1M), nfs(4), sharetab(4), attributes(5)

       Since  mountd  must  be	running for nfsd to function properly, mountd is automatically started by the svc:/network/nfs/server service. See
       nfs(4).

       Some routines that compare hostnames use case-sensitive string comparisons; some do not. If an incoming request fails, verify that the case
       of the hostname in the file to be parsed matches the case of the hostname called for, and attempt the request again.

								    27 Apr 2005 							mountd(1M)
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