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Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Mon, 4 May 2009, Simon Williams wrote: >> Tom Potts wrote: >>> Anyone seen a decent open NFS client for w2k? >> Woa. It's hard enough getting NFS to behave nicely with Linux clients. > > Huh? It "just works" ... I've maintained several NFS (and NIS) > installations - one with over 300 client PCs + Servers. (And another with > 280 nodes, but they were solaris boxes, so don't count here!) It works fine in a static environment. Unfortunately it really doesn't work at all when it comes to unreliable connections and roaming laptops. >> Setting up a samba server would be much easier and safer. > > There is that, but in days gone by, I remember using NFS under Win 3.1.. > Why did all that technology seem to "vanish" over the years.. Oh wow - M$ provide their own!?! http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324055 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html