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Hmm, okay, i've done just that. I've set up nfsd on my server (and my clients as it goes) and exported a folder. I've then installed Windows SFU (am an msdn subscriber so i didn't need to send Microsoft any information - they already have it all!) and after realising the obvious and compiling nfs3 support into my server's kernel it works a treat, both windows <-> linux and linux <-> windows. HOWEVER. Man is it slooooowwww or what? Is there anything glaringly obvious i may have done wrong? I've set the options async and no_subtree_check on the exports. I'll try samba tomorrow and see how much of a speed increase i get but at the moment i fail to see how it can't be a drastic one. Copying stuff off of my windows box to linux i was getting 6mb/s using samba (backing up prior to installing all of this). Using nfs it's more like 500k/s. I don't know if those figures are kbit or kbyte but either way it shows the order of magnitude so it's pretty immiterial. Obviously the only way i had to hand to get those figures was by using drag and drop in konqueror windows and the kio slave could i guess be slowing things up a tad so i tried a standard mount from the command line and it really wasn't any noticably better (ie, i got bored waiting for the file to copy). This was using a 50mb file as a test also, so not loads of small files, potentially with a lot of overhead. I often chuck gigabytes of data backwards and forwards from the xbox so i need to come up with something better than this. I was hoping for a linux solution because of, well, just because :O) Martin. On Friday 01 April 2005 17:52, Grant Sewell wrote:
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 17:59:07 +0100 Grant Sewell wrote:http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/default.asp Services For Unix (and Linux) contains an NFS client and an X server for Win32. Haven't used them, haven't searched for any Free (with a capital F) clients for Windows. Grant.It would appear I was wrong. The X server isn't part of SFU at all, it's a separate product from Starnet that "compliments" the SFU. My bad. Grant.
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