Novell Doc: OES 1 - Features of Native File Access for UNIX

7.1 Features of Native File Access for UNIX

The NFS Server component has been completely redesigned for better performance. The new NLM™ program, xnfs.nlm, provides the NFS Server functionality.
For details, refer to Section 7.18, Performance Tuning.
The NetWare and independent modes of file access are supported.
For details, refer to File Access Modes.
The cross protocol file locking feature ensures that a file is updated correctly before another user, application, or process can access it.
For details, refer to NFS Server File Lock Manager.
The NFS Server is completely MP enabled.
The NFS exports entry format has been modified to make it more user friendly.
For details, refer to Export Options and the comments in the sys:/etc/exports file.
You can now administer NFS Server, NIS, and UNIX User/Group Management using iManager from the Web.
For details, refer to Managing NFS Server Using iManager and Section 7.15.1, iManager-Based Management for NIS Server.
Native File Acccess for UNIX now supports both active /active and active/ passive mode sof cluster-enabling.
For details, refer to Active / Active Mode.
Only NSS volumes can be exported using Native File Access for UNIX. NFS Server does not support exporting NetWare Traditional file system.
NFS Server
Network File System (NFS) Server enables UNIX users to access a NetWare file system as if it is part of local file system on the UNIX workstation. Any client that supports the NFS protocol can access NetWare files using the NFS Server, if it is a trustee to one or more exported path.

See Section 7.4, NFS Server.
File Access Modes and Cross Protocol File Locking
NFS Server is MP-enabled and supports the NetWare and independent modes of file access to maintain file and directory access security. It supports the cross-protocol file locking feature to ensure that a file is updated correctly before another user, application, or process can access it.

See File Access Modes and NFS Server File Lock Manager.
Web-Based Administration for NFS Server
iManager provides the web-based administration for NFS Server. Using this interface, you can start and stop NFS Server, update the umask value, export a new path, view and modify exported path properties, disable or delete an exported path.

See Managing NFS Server Using iManager.
Network Information Services
NIS is a yellow pages service widely implemented in UNIX environments. NIS on NetWare acts as a central repository for NIS information by storing it as eDirectory objects that can be centrally maintained and administered.

See Section 7.5, Network Information Service .
UNIX User Management
With the implementation of NIS over eDirectory, a single User/Group in the network contains both eDirectory and UNIX information. This brings up the user management to single point, namely eDirectory.

See UNIX User Management with eDirectory .
ConsoleOne® Administration for Network Information Services
By using the ConsoleOne snap-in utility, you can administer and manage the NIS services.

See Section 7.7, ConsoleOne Administration.
iManager-Based Administration for Network Information Services
iManager provides the Web-based administration for Network Information Services. Using this interface, you can migrate UNIX users and groups, set the Directory Access mode, and also modify NIS server settings.

See Section 7.15.1, iManager-Based Management for NIS Server
Cluster Services Support
To achieve high availability of services, Native File Access for UNIX can be run on Novell Cluster Services™.

See Section 7.16, Cluster-Enabling Native File Access for UNIX.
Upgrade Utility
The upgrade utility helps retain the configurations of previous installations of NetWare NFS Services (versions 2.x and 3.x) during upgrade. Run the PERL upgrade script to upgrade the export file formats from previous versions of NetWare.

See Section 7.9, Upgrade Utility.