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