[nycbug-talk] NFS Client for Windows

[Marc Spitzer]

There is a webdav, export with apache(mod_dav_fs) and open as a share.

marc

On 11/16/05, Megan Restuccia <megan.restuccia at verizon.net> wrote:
> You could use Microsoft's Windows Services for Unix.  This allows you to install the Interix subsystem on your windows boxes and run unix commands, as well as NFS and NIS, password syncing etc.
>
> Megan
>
> >From: Jonathan <jonathan at kc8onw.net>
> >Date: Wed Nov 16 18:22:30 CST 2005
> >To: talk at lists.nycbug.org
> >Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] NFS Client for Windows
>
> >Francisco Reyes wrote:
> >> On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Jonathan wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>  From the windows machine you could use WinSCP to move files.
> >
> >I was trying to avoid that, my whole idea with sharing was for convience
> >so I would not have to maintain separate copies and copy back and forth.
> >  FWIW I did get samba set up now I just have to get it secured so the
> >whole world is not trying to get into the server.  My only gripe with
> >Samba so far is you have to use cleartext passwords over the network
> >with PAM or maintain a separate userdb :P
> >
> >Jonathan
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