NFS Windows/Linux

[chasb at kukla.tiac.net (chasb at kukla.tiac.net)]

I have to second the recommendation to investigate SAMBA. It works
and it's free. My Windows95 machine has access to all of the disks
and the printer on my Linux box. It does this well, on it's own terms,
and all of the stuff to make the Win95 end work came in the Win95 box.
All of the support to make Linux a server came in my RedHat 3.0.3 kit -
I installed the Samba RPM, did a quick edit on the configuration file,
and fired it up.

My Linux box has access to all of the same types of resources on my Win95 box.
The default SMB interface (smbclient) is similar to using FTP. The 2.0.x
kernels have support for smbfs. Build it into your kernel. Then grab
the smbmount package from sunsite. This lets you mount whatever your
windows box is exporting.

All of this works over TCP/IP and it's free.

chasb

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