Hello,
I believe some terms are confused here. A firewall is used to
protect and restrict access to the services provided on a network,
especially if the services may be abused in order to gain unauthorized
access to administrative accounts and perhaps gather or destroy proprietary
information. NFS is one of such services. Offering it through a "firewall"
would create an oxymoron. Perhaps what your friend should look into, is
a "server" configured to offer Secure RPC an secure NFS, which gives an
extra level of authentication. Such a server should not be( or be considered)
a firewall. Other possibilities are to use as well NFS over TCP(instead of
UDP), implementations. I am not aware if any of these configurations would
be usable/useful by the Sun product called PC/NFS. There may be other
implementations of NFS for MSDOS/Windows that would use secure NFS and/or
NFS over TCP. IMHO, you ought to shop around.
Cheers,
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Gustavo Vegas titan!gustavo @
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CAD Systems Administrator Microchip Technology Inc.
Chandler, Arizona
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