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authorMax Kellermann <max@duempel.org>2014-09-19 22:12:42 +0200
committerMax Kellermann <max@duempel.org>2014-09-19 22:12:49 +0200
commit6d91d270d6b0b456a5a993ab693c2d5a542ce92e (patch)
tree0d73a701fce3e7768b42b28828b05bc6fa321629 /doc
parentdd1cec4196e74cce2025d2d781e8c2a30cb55147 (diff)
doc/user: more NFS instructions
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1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/user.xml b/doc/user.xml
index d90ca7bb7..489696d01 100644
--- a/doc/user.xml
+++ b/doc/user.xml
@@ -1440,7 +1440,7 @@ buffer_size: 16384</programlisting>
</para>
</section>
- <section>
+ <section id="nfs_storage">
<title><varname>nfs</varname></title>
<para>
@@ -1450,6 +1450,26 @@ buffer_size: 16384</programlisting>
url="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2224">RFC2224</ulink>,
for example "<parameter>nfs://servername/path</parameter>".
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ This plugin uses <ulink
+ url="https://github.com/sahlberg/libnfs"><filename>libnfs</filename></ulink>,
+ which supports only NFS version 3. Since
+ <application>MPD</application> is not allowed to bind to
+ "privileged ports", the NFS server needs to enable the
+ "insecure" setting; example
+ <filename>/etc/exports</filename>:
+ </para>
+
+ <programlisting>/srv/mp3 192.168.1.55(ro,insecure)</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ Don't fear: "insecure" does not mean that your NFS server is
+ insecure. A few decades ago, people thought the concept of
+ "privileged ports" would make network services "secure",
+ which was a fallacy. The absence of this obsolete
+ "security" measure means little.
+ </para>
</section>
</section>