Anyone have a rudimentary NFS Windows client code?

I'm looking for a rather simple Windows NFS client that, as you'd
expect, simply is able to mount a remote NFS drive and provide a drive
letter in windows. Caching and/or anything fancy is not needed (in
fact I only need read-only access).

I'm hoping someone has the code for their senior project laying around
somewhere.

(this isn't necessarily a request for free code - I'm willing to set
something up especially if you're willing to help me make the code
work for my needs/support it).

Every last google on "Windows NFS Client" I did turned up some happy
person saying "Forget NFS - just use Samba!" - please don't bother.
I'm not interested in a general remote drive mounting situation - I
need NFS.

Incidentally - I have checked:

1) Windows SFU - it might work if I really have to go there, but it
only installs on select OS's (windows XP pro (not home) and Win 2k) -
I really need something that is more more flexible.

2) Commercial Windows NFS clients (i.e., Omni, ProNfs, nfsAxe, wrq,
etc) - these will definitely work, but I would prefer something more
custom and honestly more simple.

Any help would be appreciated.

regards

In comp.os.linux.networking Dan <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> I'm looking for a rather simple Windows NFS client that, as you'd
> expect, simply is able to mount a remote NFS drive and provide a drive
> letter in windows. Caching and/or anything fancy is not needed (in
> fact I only need read-only access).

And your question about Linux is?

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On 28 Oct 2004 09:04:13 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) (Dan) wrote:

>I'm looking for a rather simple Windows NFS client that, as you'd
>expect, simply is able to mount a remote NFS drive and provide a drive
>letter in windows. Caching and/or anything fancy is not needed (in
>fact I only need read-only access).

>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>regards

I have never tried it, but you might look into cygwin to see if there
is a way to nfs mount:

http://www.cygwin.com

Or try this as an alternate?
What I use for getting files is a cygwin generated rsync. I made it
run in that other OS and made sure the Linux server could provide
access to the directory structure from which the copy was to be made.
Didn't have much luck running rsync.exe under 98SE but 2000 Pro and
2000 Server work.

ftp://news.chsoft.biz/pub/Rsync/Windows

buck

buck wrote:
> On 28 Oct 2004 09:04:13 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) (Dan) wrote:
>
>
>>I'm looking for a rather simple Windows NFS client that, as you'd
>>expect, simply is able to mount a remote NFS drive and provide a drive
>>letter in windows. Caching and/or anything fancy is not needed (in
>>fact I only need read-only access).
>
>
>>Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>regards
>
>
> I have never tried it, but you might look into cygwin to see if there
> is a way to nfs mount:
>
> http://www.cygwin.com
>

Sorry to disappoint - Cygwin creates UNIX-like userland
on top of Windows infrastructure. NFS belongs to the
infrastructure.

The way to go with Windows disk sharing is definitively Samba,
it's easire to speak Microsoftese than try to teach foreign
languages to the dumbo (Windows).

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi