NFS client for windows

Hi all,

I'm looking for an NFS client (preferably freeware) for Windows XP to use
instead of samba. Does someone have experience with anything like that?

Thanks,
Marc
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Marc Onrust wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for an NFS client (preferably freeware) for Windows XP to use
> instead of samba. Does someone have experience with anything like that?

A while ago I tried some NFS clients for Windows (all commercial) and my
advice is to stick with Samba. Samba works very well and no Windows NFS
client I found ever did. I use Samba exclusively for serving Windows
clients now.

The problem is, I think, Windows itself not the actual client software.
With too many protocols to choose from it makes errors and tries to use
NFS to access NetBIOS shares and vice versa. It's much more reliable if
you let it use just its own native protocol. OTOH Linux has no problem
at all running SMB in addition to NFS.

Of course as I did this a while ago it was with Windows 95 and NT, but I
see no reason to expect XP to be any better than NT.

Why don't you want to use Samba?

Regards, Ian

Ian Northeast wrote:

> Marc Onrust wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm looking for an NFS client (preferably freeware) for Windows XP to use
>> instead of samba. Does someone have experience with anything like that?
>
> A while ago I tried some NFS clients for Windows (all commercial) and my
> advice is to stick with Samba. Samba works very well and no Windows NFS
> client I found ever did. I use Samba exclusively for serving Windows
> clients now.
>
> The problem is, I think, Windows itself not the actual client software.
> With too many protocols to choose from it makes errors and tries to use
> NFS to access NetBIOS shares and vice versa. It's much more reliable if
> you let it use just its own native protocol. OTOH Linux has no problem
> at all running SMB in addition to NFS.
>
> Of course as I did this a while ago it was with Windows 95 and NT, but I
> see no reason to expect XP to be any better than NT.
>
> Why don't you want to use Samba?
>
> Regards, Ian

I like the relative ease of setting up NFS on a linux client, so I hoped
there was something similar for windows. I tried samba but it keeps asking
a password (none of the passwords I use are accepted) when I "log in" onto
a windows machine.

Marc
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