Subject: Re: Windows NFS client
To: Mark Thomas <thomas.s.mark@gmail.com>
From: Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/02/2007 22:15:38
On 02/12/2007, Mark Thomas <thomas.s.mark@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to connect to a NetBSD server from Windows(XP, 2000)
> using an NFS client. Does anyone have a favorite client? Any idea what
> to look for when shopping for such a client? Does NFS work as well as,
> or similar to Samba? I know NFS works well with Unix-like clients but
> I haven't tried Windows yet.

I have got a few machines at work running Microsoft SFU 3.5. It's free
for XP and server 2003, i am not sure if it works under 2000; Vista
Ultimate and Enterprise include it as well (well, the capability to
download it... - not on my office copy of Business unfortunately), as
well as 2008 server. Ours is NIS/NT4-domain environment (don't
laugh...), and it works reasonably well for the occasional use we
need.

>
> All of the NetBSD servers will be managed remotely and have less than
> 20 Windows clients connecting to them. The clients will need
> read/write access to the servers. My thinking is, if I can make NFS
> work like Samba it will mean less maintenance, I could be very wrong
> though.
>
> thanks for any/all input,
>
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