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On Monday 04 May 2009 16:17, Simon Williams wrote: > Gordon Henderson wrote: > > On Mon, 4 May 2009, Simon Williams wrote: > >> Tom Potts wrote: > >>> Anyone seen a decent open NFS client for w2k? > >> > >> Woa. It's hard enough getting NFS to behave nicely with Linux clients. > > > > Huh? It "just works" ... I've maintained several NFS (and NIS) > > installations - one with over 300 client PCs + Servers. (And another with > > 280 nodes, but they were solaris boxes, so don't count here!) > > It works fine in a static environment. Unfortunately it really doesn't > work at all when it comes to unreliable connections and roaming laptops. > > >> Setting up a samba server would be much easier and safer. > > > > There is that, but in days gone by, I remember using NFS under Win 3.1.. > > Why did all that technology seem to "vanish" over the years.. > > Oh wow - M$ provide their own!?! > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324055 Apparently it still blue screens the machines its on a lot! I was hoping cygwin might have one but no luck - cant imagine its too hard to plagiarise one - that way I can get away from any TomTom patent rubbish: cant imagine Samba not having long/short file name stuff in it! Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html