[TriLUG] Windows NFS?

justin parker xjparkerx at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 12:29:34 EDT 2012


+1 for the Windows Services for UNIX

Would not recommend NFS Maestro.  It's part of the Hummingbird family of
products.  It seems to be riddled with memory holes and stability issues.
The windows services for unix are actually better than a lot of 3rd party
products I've seen.

Justin

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com> wrote:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX is what I would
> use.
> I use it at home and it works better than SAMBA. Setting up user
> permissions is tricky, but after it's done there is zero maintenance I've
> had to do on it.
>
> Igor
>
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Craig Cook <cncook001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes, I realize this is a linux list.
> >
> > Has anyone tried to use the built in windows server NFS client to access
> > production linux servers?
> >
> > I have been asked to make a windows server "see" a file that is dropped
> > onto a unix file system.  Used as a flag to start a job on the windows
> box.
> >
> > The thought of using Microsoft NFS has me concerned.
> >
> > We could change the application to send the file to windows, but that
> > requires more effort than we want to do.
> >
> > Craig
> >
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