[NTLUG:Discuss] Does an opensource Win32 NFS client exist?
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Feb 10 01:21:54 CST 2011
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 05:31:58PM -0600, Hank Ivy wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 09, 2011 02:16 pm Richard wrote:
> > 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.
It's not FOSS, free, nor particularly fast, but I've had reasonably
good luck using ExpanDrive for Windows (http://expandrive.com/ ).
It's basically sshfs for Windows -- it lets me mount any ssh-available
server as a local Windows drive and access it accordingly. This means
I can mount all of my Linux server accounts and all of my Android devices
under Windows without having to set up either Samba or NFS on any of them,
I can use ssh authentication and Linux's built-in user/group authorizations
to control access to the filesystems, and all of the data transfers are
ssh-encrypted across the network. Pretty sweet.
Pm
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