recommendations for Windows NFS clients needed

[Craig Hagerman]

I can't really help you Eric, as I don't know about NFS clients for
Windows. But I suggest you look into Samba further. There are lots of
good websites out there. I just set up Samba on a Ubuntu machine, and
set up sharing with two windows machines with almost no difficulties.
I am no whiz at Samba but I read through a few web sites, set up the
conf file, adjusted permissions .... and it "just worked".

On the other hand at home I have had tons of grief trying to get file
sharing working as I want between a Debian server and my Mac
Powerbook. Oddly enough Samba seemed to work OK, but I was stubborn
and wanted to use either webdav or NFS. I have been (try to) use
webdav for years, and have had lots of problems related to not being
able to save files to the webdav folder. So I set up NFS on both. At
first I had the same problems with not being able to write to the
share, and I had to alter user and group ids to match both the client
and server after which it did work. I played around with Apple File
Sharing as well, but I would prefer to not use a proprietary system
like that.

My opinion is that Samba is probably easier to get set up than the
other options, but you may try looking into webdav if you are already
running Apache (called web folders in the Windows world I think). Once
it is set up it works very well in Windows.

Craig