NFS with Windows 2003 Server

On 2004-09-23, Yann KERNIN <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Please let me know of to enable NFS on a Windows 2003 Server to allow
> UNIX hosts to access to the server hard disk.

Ask on a Windows related newsgroup.
Davide

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Hi,

Please let me know of to enable NFS on a Windows 2003 Server to allow
UNIX hosts to access to the server hard disk.

Thanks
Yann

Yann KERNIN wrote:

> Please let me know of to enable NFS on a Windows 2003 Server to allow
> UNIX hosts to access to the server hard disk.

It's probably easier/more-robust to use samba on UNIX to access the native
file sharing capabilities of your Windows 2003 server.

-- Rex

On 2004-09-23, Yann KERNIN <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Please let me know of to enable NFS on a Windows 2003 Server to allow
> UNIX hosts to access to the server hard disk.

Well, you'd need to install a Windows NFS server on the machine.
Microsoft doesn't provide one, so you'd have to buy it from a third party.

Otherwise, you could just use samba on the *nix machines to access the
Windows network filesystem provided by Microsoft.

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-John ((E-Mail Removed))

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:33:52 -0500, Rex Dieter <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Yann KERNIN wrote:
>
>> Please let me know of to enable NFS on a Windows 2003 Server to allow
>> UNIX hosts to access to the server hard disk.
>
> It's probably easier/more-robust to use samba on UNIX to access the native
> file sharing capabilities of your Windows 2003 server.

Cheaper, too. The last I checked, Windows NFS servers were priced in the
range of several hundred dollars, and had CALs that capped the number of
machines allowed to mount drives.

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-- Skylar Thompson ((E-Mail Removed))
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On 2004-09-26, Skylar Thompson wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:33:52 -0500, Rex Dieter <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Yann KERNIN wrote:
>>
>>> Please let me know of to enable NFS on a Windows 2003 Server to allow
>>> UNIX hosts to access to the server hard disk.
>>
>> It's probably easier/more-robust to use samba on UNIX to access the native
>> file sharing capabilities of your Windows 2003 server.
>
> Cheaper, too. The last I checked, Windows NFS servers were priced in the
> range of several hundred dollars, and had CALs that capped the number of
> machines allowed to mount drives.

Have you checked Microsoft Services for Unix? AFAIR SfU gives NFS
server.

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Stanislaw Klekot

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 18:52:38 +0000 (UTC), Stachu 'Dozzie' K. <cut-to-last-hypen-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> On 2004-09-26, Skylar Thompson wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:33:52 -0500, Rex Dieter <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>> Yann KERNIN wrote:
>>>
>>>> Please let me know of to enable NFS on a Windows 2003 Server to allow
>>>> UNIX hosts to access to the server hard disk.
>>>
>>> It's probably easier/more-robust to use samba on UNIX to access the native
>>> file sharing capabilities of your Windows 2003 server.
>>
>> Cheaper, too. The last I checked, Windows NFS servers were priced in the
>> range of several hundred dollars, and had CALs that capped the number of
>> machines allowed to mount drives.
>
> Have you checked Microsoft Services for Unix? AFAIR SfU gives NFS
> server.

Do the CALs for Windows clients carry over for the UNIX clients, or do you
have to buy separate CALs?

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-- Skylar Thompson ((E-Mail Removed))
-- http://www.os2.dhs.org/~skylar/

On 2004-09-26, Skylar Thompson wrote:
>> Have you checked Microsoft Services for Unix? AFAIR SfU gives NFS
>> server.
>
> Do the CALs for Windows clients carry over for the UNIX clients, or do you
> have to buy separate CALs?

I have no idea. Ask Microsoft's support, they should know.

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Stanislaw Klekot

why don't just mounting the file systems?