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Re: nfs in client mode (winxp => linux)


reader@newsguy.com wrote:
I see lots of past messages here about setting up NFS in server mode,
but very little in the other direction.

Going far enough back there was quite a long thread about SFU
(Services for unix) but I haven't been able to get that NFS client to
work.  In fact I can't even really do anything with ksh shell it
provides.  Every command gets a tty error.

So has anything changed since the release of SFU 3.5? That has been a
good while. Is there still no cygwin NFS client for windows?

I use both SFU (3.5, pre-2003R2) and SUA (5.2, Win2003R2 and later) NFS clients without too much trouble (nothing that doesn't seem to be general sharing problems, anyway; mostly it works about as well as anything over ssh - i.e. poorly). The trick is getting user name mapping set up correctly. You might want to ask on the Interix forums (http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/default.aspx) if things aren't working.


Unfortunately there is no NFS client (not that I've ever heard of, anyway) that plays nicely with Cygwin (true symlink and permissions support, for example).

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Matthew
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