Related Books and Sites

The following on-line System AnswerBook® products cover related network programming topics:

• Solaris 8 Reference Manual Collection

• Solaris 8 Software Developer Collection

For information on Sun Microsystem's NFS® distributed computing file system, see the following sources:

• "NFS: Network File System Protocol Specification version 3," RFC 1813, (Mar), Sun Microsystems

• "NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification," Sun Microsystems, 1993. Postscript copies available via anonymous ftp:

• ftp.uu.net:/networking/ip/nfs/NFS3.spec.ps.Z bcm.tmc.edu:/nfs/nfsv3.ps.Z gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/standards/nfs/nfsv3.ps.Z

• 1094 NFS: Network File System Protocol specification (version 2)

• 1509 Generic Security Service API: C-bindings

• 1510 The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)

• 1813 NFS Version 3 Protocol Specification

• 1831 RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version 2

• 1832 XDR: External Data Representation Standard

• 1833 Binding Protocols for ONC RPC Version 2

• 2078 Generic Security Service Application Program Interface

• 2203 RPCSEC_GSS Protocol Specification

The following third-party books and articles are excellent sources on network programming topics:

• UNIX Network Programming, W. Richard Stevens (Prentice Hall Software Series, 1990)

• Power Programming with RPC, John Bloomer (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc, 1992)

• Networking Applications on UNIX System V Release 4, Michael Padovano (Prentice Hall, Inc., 1993)

• Distributed Computing: Implementation and Managment Strategies (Edited by Raman Khanna. Prentice Hall, 1993)

• Using Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks of Computers, R.M. Needham and M.D. Schroeder in Communications of the ACM (Vol. 21, No. 12, pages 993-999, 1978)

• Section E.2.1: Kerberos Authentication and Authorization System, S.P. Miller, B.C Neuman, J.I. Schiller and J.H. Saltzer (Project Athena Technical Plan, MIT Project Athena, December 1987)

• Kerberos: An Authentication Service for Open Network Systems, J.G. Steiner, B.C. Neuman, and J.I.Schiller (Usenix Conference Proceedings, Dallas, TX, pages 191-202, February, 1988)