10/14 Free/shareware NFS client or server available for NT4? Searched but
only found somewhat pricey commercial overkill products. I just want
to get my unix and NT machines talking both directions without using
smbclient on the unix side. Thanks.
\_ how about using samba and doing serving from the unix side and
native smb mounts on the NT side?
\_ what if I want to give users access to their data stored on
an NFS mountable drive when they are working at an NT?
\_ Make the nfs mountable drive also samba mountable. SMB is
'nfs for windows' since microsoft always needs to have their
'own standard'.
\_ [grr at whoever deleted my reply] I've got samba running but
it's painfully slow for some reason. I've used samba many
times before but never had this problem. Also, I'm not running
Linux. I don't have native smbfs support.
\_ I recall reading something once about tuning problems
many people have when they don't turn off one of the link
following options. Get the docs directory that comes with
the source and poke through that, there is a pretty good
fine-tuning section. Also, install SWAT, its online help
for the various parameters is pretty good. And sign your
name. -John
\_ The two products we use are Samba, which we've found to have
excellent performance (esp with new 2.0 version), and Sharity
http://www.obdev.at/Products/Sharity.html. Samba lets you
see NFS mounted file systems on NT machines, and Sharity lets
you see SMB mounted (NT) file systems on Unix machines. Good luck.
\_ There is also sharity light (free), which is nice for
occasional use, but doesn't do encrypted passwords and can
fall down when left alone for a long time. Forget url,
look in FreeBSD ports collection. -John
\_ Sharity. Perfect. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! |