Re: [LUG] NFS client for Microsoft

[Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Samba is performing rather well on the school network (am seriously
> > considering decomissioning Win2K server entirely, if only Bill would
> > refund our educational licenses), and it struck me that the ideal solution
> > would be to mount NFS drives natively on our Win2K & WinXP client PCs.

> I believe this is included in the somewhat oxymoronic Windows Services for
> UNIX - free download from the evil empire:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/default.asp

Having used Services for Unix on several occasions (most recently this week),
it's my opinion that SFU is not very good compared to samba and you're much
better off sticking with samba for *nix <-> windows integration.

Alex.

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