1 .TH mcserv 8 "August 2009" "MC Version 4.7.0-pre1" "GNU Midnight Commander"
3 mcserv \- Midnight Commander file server.
6 [\-diqvf] [\-p portnum]
9 mcserv is the server program for the Midnight Commander networking
10 file system. It provides access to the host file system to clients
11 running the Midnight file system (currently, only the Midnight
12 Commander file manager).
14 If the program is run as root the program will try to get a reserved
15 port otherwise it will use 9876 as the port.
17 If the system has a portmapper running, then the port will be
18 registered with the portmapper and thus clients will automatically
19 connect to the right port. If the system does not have a portmapper,
20 then a port should be manually specified with the -p option (see
26 Become a daemon, you should use this flag if you start the program
27 from one of the system startup files. This flag will make the program
28 handle any number of incoming requests by forking a new copy of itself
35 To make the server listen on the specified
40 Allow ftp authentication as a fallback if the other methods fail.
41 This is only useful on systems where the password checking method is not
42 supported by this version of mcserv. The local ftp server is contacted
43 with the username and password. The user is authenticated if the ftp
44 server accepts the credentials. Use this option with care and only
48 Toggle on the verbose mode.
50 This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
51 License as published by the Free Software Foundation. See the built-in
52 help for details on the License and the lack of warranty.
54 This program currently uses port 9876, and not a system secure port.
55 This is a potential security problem since it could be run by any user
56 on the system if the system daemon is not running.
62 The Midnight Commander page on the World Wide Web:
63 http://www.midnight-commander.org/
67 Miguel de Icaza (miguel@ximian.com).