WebNFS Support

The Solaris 2.6 release also included the ability to make a file system on the Internet accessible through firewalls. This capability was provided by using an extension to the NFS protocol. One of the advantages to using the WebNFS^TM protocol for Internet access is its reliability. The service is built as an extension of the NFS version 3 and version 2 protocol. Also, an NFS server provides greater throughput under a heavy load than Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) access to a Web server. This throughput can decrease the amount of time that is required to retrieve a file. In addition, the WebNFS implementation provides the ability to share these files without the administrative overhead of an anonymous ftp site. See Security Negotiation for the WebNFS Service for a description of more changes that are related to the WebNFS service. See WebNFS Administration Tasks for more task information.