[TriLUG] nfs client for windows

[Mark Fowle]

Well, maybe -- Right now the first half of the product is contained on a
Windwos 2003 server, running SCO in a VM image -- The SCO images is so
constrained - but a small linux vm just doing samba ...   I'll have to
try that to see what kind of overhead...


On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 18:47 -0400, Ron Joffe wrote:
> Mark, can you do a man-in-the middle approach ?
> 
> Low end linux box reading NFS from SCO and providing SAMBA to the windows 
> box ?
> 
> Ron
> 
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:42, Mark Fowle wrote:
> > Thanks - Chameleon was a very good product - a bit ahead of its time - I
> > I remember those days well --  The company I work for loves SFU, but it
> > has so many issues I don't know where to start. The only two pieces it
> > needs is RSH (which I found and it works great) and of course "mount" to
> > mount two unix shares - I've done samba (Including building a lovely AD)
> > in a lot of environments, but not on SCO - and in this case I can't add
> > anything to the SCO environment without months of regression testing to
> > our application (and by that I mean anything necessary to build the
> > binaries) - ugh..  I found several "for cost" clients that seem to do
> > what I want - but I was hoping that some one, some where had developed a
> > nice client that, well, was free :-)    They certainly give the "Sever"
> > side away for free - lol.
> >
> > - Mark
> >
> > On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 21:46 -0700, Marty Ferguson wrote:
> > > SAMBA is universally the same.  and if you read the history of SAMBA,
> > > you will discover
> > > that it was originally developed due to the can of worms you are going
> > > to be dealing with
> > > using an NFS client on PCs.  Chameleon went the way of the dinosaur a
> > > long long time ago.
> > >
> > > So do yourself a favor, and rather than investing  your intellect and
> > > talents on a dead-end,
> > > give yourself the expertise you need and provide yourself with a body of
> > > knowledge you
> > > will use over and over again in the future.
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Marty
> > >
> > > Mark Fowle wrote:
> > > > Well - I thought of that - but I can't find much for configuring SAMBA
> > > > on SCO (OpenServer 5.7) /*ugh*/
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 4:32 PM, ak dom <akdom2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > >>>  Anyone know of a "free" nfs client for windows?  Windows for Unix
> > > >>>
> > > >>>  serverices 3.5 doesn't work as well as I had hoped....
> > > >>>
> > > >>>  Thanks,
> > > >>>  Mark
> > > >>
> > > >> I know this may not be the response you were looking for, but is
> > > >> setting up SAMBA out of the question?  I know it's added complexity
> > > >> and everything, but that's how we dealt with the issue at work.  Also
> > > >> I think cygwin has NFS support... unsure of how well it works.
> > > >>
> > > >> Alex Kesling
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
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