| This is a Python interface to Sun RPC, designed and implemented mostly | |
| by reading the Internet RFCs about the subject. | |
| *** NOTE: xdr.py has evolved into the standard module xdrlib.py *** | |
| There are two library modules, xdr.py and rpc.py, and several example | |
| clients: mountclient.py, nfsclient.py, and rnusersclient.py, | |
| implementing the NFS Mount protocol, (part of) the NFS protocol, and | |
| the "rnusers" protocol (used by rusers(1)), respectively. The latter | |
| demonstrates the use of broadcast via the Port mapper's CALLIT | |
| procedure. | |
| There is also a way to create servers in Python. | |
| To test the nfs client, run it from the shell with something like this: | |
| python -c 'import nfsclient; nfsclient.test()' [hostname [filesystemname]] | |
| When called without a filesystemname, it lists the filesystems at the | |
| host; default host is the local machine. | |
| Other clients are tested similarly. | |
| For hostname, use e.g. wuarchive.wustl.edu or gatekeeper.dec.com (two | |
| hosts that are known to export NFS filesystems with little restrictions). | |
| There are now two different RPC compilers: | |
| 1) Wim Lewis rpcgen.py found on http://www.omnigroup.com/~wiml/soft/stale-index.html#python. | |
| 2) Peter Åstrands rpcgen.py, which is part of "pynfs" (http://www.cendio.se/~peter/pynfs/). |