recommendations for Windows NFS clients needed
Eric S. Johansson
esj at harvee.org
Sun Sep 11 22:08:15 UTC 2005
Craig Hagerman wrote:
> 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".
fyi. 2 more hours and still no luck. now windows doesn't even see the
samba server. what a rathole.
> 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.
works well sometimes. Still has many flaws but at least it is not samba.
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