Due to security and complexity issues ,Unix systems vary somewhat in exactly how they handle the server side of doing NFS mounts . I've recently been digging inthis area, and this is what I've learned about how it works in Solaris10.

The server side of mounting things from a Solaris 10 fileserver goesmore or less like this:

• a client does the usual SUNRPC dance with portmapper and then sendsan RPC mount request to mountd
• if the filesystem is not exported at all or if the options

Like many sysadmins using Unix workstations, I spend a lot of timerunning xterm s. Given that most of the time the remote X program Istart with my rxexec script is an xterm , it'sno surprise that I wrote another script to automate all of the magicinvolved, called rxterm .

Rxterm's basic job is to start an xterm on a remote system with all ofthe right options set for it; for instance, so that the xterm titleand icon title have the name of the system that