Microsoft's "Services For UNIX" includes an NFS client among many other use=
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things.  Its a free download from microsoft.com, I can confirm that it work=
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in Win2k and WinXP, its biggest requirement is an NTFS filesystem...it will=
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not run on FAT.

If you were to install SFU, you could just make NFS the standard across you=
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network,perhaps that would be more attractive than SAMBA.

SFU is still worth a look regardless.  It basically gives Microsoft its own=
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UNIX utilities, most of which are GNU apps!  Its a fully-functional unix=20
environment within Windows, complete with csh and ksh.  Its UNIX subsystem,=
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called Interix, is even supported by Pkgsrc, if i recall correctly.

On Wednesday 19 January 2005 4:08 pm, Lord Clark Frazier Hale I wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 05:46:51PM -0800, Phil Nelson wrote:
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> > On Tuesday 18 January 2005 15:16, Petra Lynn Hofmann wrote:
> > > however, what about Win2K/XP? =A0Is CIFS used by these file systems? =
=A0Or,
> > > is SAMBA still the best method of file sharing between Linux and MS
> > > O/S?
> >
> > Samba is a very good solution.  I use it all the time.   It currently is
> > the
>
> Samba is actually what had driven me to look for an alternative.  Samba is
> a good program in and of itself, but the Windows Networking experience has
> left me with a bad tast in my mouth.  Having a uniform way to share files
> between Windows and BSD/Linux/UNIX is very attractive to me.
>
> Thanks much for the write up, very informative.  However, I now think that
> Coda won't work for me, since I really need to share home directories.
> Several people on my network are running GNOME and KDE, with all the
> mini-databases that go with them :).
>
> For posterity's sake, here's what I've discovered on AFS:
>
> The OpenAFS server compiles and runs on NetBSD.  The OpenAFS client does
> not work at all.  I have not had a chance to test it myself, but I've been
> told it works well.  Support is in the testing (1.3.x) OpenAFS release
> for OpenBSD and Mac OS, hopefully to the benefit of NetBSD users.
>
> A tutorial for setting it up is at:
> http://www.madscientistresearch.net/ProjectList/ProjectNorton/AfsOnNetBSD
>
> For a NetBSD client, arla in pkgsrc provides functionality nicely.  Arla
> also includes a server, but it is not production quality.
>
> (Thanks to Tracy J. Di Marco White for the AFS info).
>
> Thanks to all,
>
> Clark