[NTLUG:Discuss] Does an opensource Win32 NFS client exist?

Hank Ivy hankivy at hot.rr.com
Wed Feb 9 17:31:58 CST 2011


On Wednesday, February 09, 2011 02:16 pm Richard wrote:
> NFS clients for the Win32 platform seem very rare and very outdated.
> The ones I did find were usually bundled with emulation programs like
> Rhumba and Reflections.
> 
> Is it just that difficult to teach Win32 operating systems to speak UNIX
> / NFS?
> 
> Just in case I'm incorrect, do any of you know of any FOSS NFS Clients
> for Win32?

Some people mount the file systems two ways; NFS and Samba; at the same time.  Try the SUSE 
distro as your NFS/Samba server.  The Windows systems will not need the NFS support to get to 
the data.  And the *nix systems can use NFS.  Everybody is happy.

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Hank Ivy

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