[nycbug-talk] NFS Client for Windows

[pete wright]

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.



yea, I've had mixed results using SFU. Only issue is the Microsoft is
stopping development on it:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/02/0722252&tid=201&tid=130&tid=109&tid=218
(looks like eweek link is down though...)

-p


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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