NFS Daemons
To provide NFS services to other hosts in the network, you run NFS daemons on your machine. The daemons and their related services are generally started at boot time by the system boot scripts. They are started when a system is in the multiuser mode. The boot script that starts NFS daemons in Solaris is Solaris-/etc/init.d/nfs.server, /etc/init.d/nfs.client.
The NFS servers run Mountd and Nfsd, whereas the NFS clients support the Lockd and Statd daemons.
Mountd
Mountd is an RPC server that enables remote systems to mount file systems. The share command creates a table of shared local resources to enable mounting. In the table, a line for each shared resource contains the pathname of the resource, the resource being shared, the file ...
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