[Info-vax] NFS proxy database when booted from DVD?

[Craig A. Berry]

On 1/31/19 3:01 PM, Steven Schweda wrote:
>> What I can't figure out from the docs is how to make entries in an NFS
>> proxy database when booted from read-only media and there is no local
>> writable storage other than what I'm about to restore to. [...]
> 
>     Why would you want to?  I do little with NFS on VMS, so I
> know nothing, but isn't the relevant proxy database on the
> NFS _server_, which, presumably, is _not_ "booted from
> read-only media"?  At least one of us seems to be missing
> something fundamental.

The docs say that both client and server use the proxy database, and the
client uses it to map VMS usernames to UID and GID on the server.

>> [...] The docs say (in section 23.1.6), [...]
> 
>     See also section 23.3.  I'll admit that that doc does not
> club the reader over the head with the location of the proxy
> database, but there are clues.  For example, "/HOST=CLIENT1".
> If this were being done on CLIENT1, then why would you need
> to specify the client?

Maybe that is a server entry rather than a client entry?  CLIENT1 in
that example is the "remote host name" the meaning of which is defined
in Table 23-1 as:

Name of the remote host, which is one of the following:
• Remote client of the local NFS server
• Remote server for the local NFS client
• Both
• Wildcard ( *) for all hosts