On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 21:38 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Mike McMullin wrote:
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 09:40 -0400, James Knott wrote:
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 12:01 -0600, Donald D Henson wrote:
Although I have a Samba server activated, I mostly use NFS. Golden rule of network filesystems:
Always run the network filesystem that is _native_ to the _client_. - Serve NFS for UNIX/Linux - Serve SMB for Windows Absolutely. The only time Samba is used is when one of the two dual-booted workstations are actually running Windows. Otherwise NFS all
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 06:54 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote: the way. I also only use Samba for accessing Windows systems. BTW, XP home does not support that MS NFS package, so in my case, I don't even have the
Donald D Henson wrote: option of running NFS on XP.
I'm not sure about your conclusion. IIRC some months ago, this came up, and it seems that MS has these services available as a download. (I've got an ME system that we were discussing.) Perhaps you could look at MS again. I know that there are several packages out there in Shareware form for NFS on Windows, but I don't recall seeing any freeware packages. Odd as it's not a closed protocol.
From the MS MUS download page.
"System Requirements
* Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000; Windows 2000 Service Pack 3; Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP
* The minimum system requirements for installing Windows Services for UNIX depends on which components you are installing and the file system of the disk where the components will be installed. * The maximum disk space required to install all Windows Services for UNIX components is approximately 275 MB. The minimum disk space required is 19 MB.
Note: The product will not install on Windows 9x or Windows XP Home Edition."
Then it looks like the Shareware option is the way to go. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com