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NFS/NIS Recommendations for Windows?

Posted by Cliff on from the playing-nicely-on-the-network dept.

Fembot asks: "The Samba team are doing a great job, but I can't help but feel that making Unix machines serve Windows-based protocols is the wrong approach. Back in the days of Windows95 it shipped with an NFS client on the CD which could be installed optionaly. Are there open source (or even just free as in beer) NFS clients for Windows 2000/XP, and is it possible to authenticate users on Windows desktops via NIS?"

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  1. Linux Interaction Kit by Speedy8 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Think of how cool it would be if HP, DELL, Alien Ware, etc. shipped all of their computers with a Linux interaction kit full of programs that would allow windows users to interact with Linux boxes using opensource protocals. The computers would still interact with windows boxes int he normal way but could use the open source methodes to.