[nycbug-talk] NFS Client for Windows

[Jonathan]

pete wright wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/12/05, *Dru* <dlavigne6 at sympatico.ca 
> <mailto:dlavigne6 at sympatico.ca>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Jonathan wrote:
> 
>      > Hello, oh wise ones :)
>      >
>      > I'm running FreeBSD on my server and use it as my desktop most of
>     the time,
>      > but for those times when I have to use Windows (games mostly :P)
>     it would be
>      > nice to have access to the files shared from my server.  I know I
>     could set
>      > up Samba on the server but I would rather avoid that if
>     possible.  Does
>      > anyone know of a free NFS client for windows that will work for
>     more than a
>      > 15-30 day evaluation period?  Also I tried Microsoft Services For
>     Unix (SFU)
>      > and got confused pretty quickly.
> 
> 
>     SFU is pretty deprecated and NFS makes me shudder (but that's just me).
>     When I want to grab files from FreeBSD to Windows, I just putty them
>     over.
> 
>     Dru
> 
> 
> 
> yea SFU is no longer supported by MS.  i'd give sharity a try:
> 
> http://www.obdev.at/products/sharity/index.html
> 
> not bsd or gpl'd but sharity lite is free.
> -p
> 
Pretty much exactly what I was looking for, in the wrong direction :P  I 
guess I'll just have to set up Samba as well as NFS.  Of course the more 
of this I do hopefully the better my resume will look :)

Thanks for all the suggestions,
Jonathan