tnfsd (trivial network filesystem server) TNFS is a simplified Internet file transfer protocol, designed for limited resource usage and ease of implementation on small systems, such as 8-bit computers. It's simpler than NFS, SMB, or FTP. It's similar to TFTP, but has features TFTP lacks. Since tnfsd has no access control other than file permissions, and since we generally don't want clients to have write access, this package uses a dedicated user/group for the daemon, and another group to control local write access to the shared directory. Before running this SlackBuild, you must create the tnfsd user and the tnfsd and tnfs-files groups. Use these commands: groupadd -g 375 tnfsd groupadd -g 376 tnfs-files useradd -u 375 -d /var/tnfs -c "TNFS Daemon User" \ -M -g tnfsd tnfsd -s /bin/false After the package is installed, add any users you want to the tnfs-files group. These users will be able to create files in the /var/tnfs directory. Example: usermod -a -G tnfs-files joeblow After the above command, the user joeblow will have to log out and back in, to join the new group. Once this is done, the user can copy files to /var/tnfs (or ~tnfs) and they will be visible to TNFS clients. TNFS uses port 16384, UDP (for most 8-bit clients) and TCP (for the Linux client), so make sure you allow incoming traffic if you have firewall rules. This package includes the server and an init script for running tnfsd as a system daemon. To start tnfsd at boot, first edit /etc/rc.d/rc.tnfsd, read the comments, and change the default user and directory if needed. Then add this to /etc/rc.d/rc.local: [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.tnfsd ] && /etc/rc.d/rc.tnfsd start Depending on how you're using tnfsd, it might make more sense to start the service as needed, as an unprivileged user, instead of running it as a system daemon. Usage logging is a compile-time option. By default, it's enabled. If you find it too chatty, you can rebuild this with USAGELOG=no set in the environment.