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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. Re:In Soviet Russia by moncyb · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I hate to tell you this, but the Canadian guy was asking how to put more memory into his mp3 player, not how to install a hard drive in it. Some stupid people just assumed that's what he asked. He didn't want to buy a new one because he would have to pay a tax to the RIAA terrorists. Sounded like a good question to me.

    I don't see why this NFS question is stupid either. Maybe you're one of the regulars from comp.os.linux.*? ;-)

    The obligatory joke: In Soviet Russia...you screw Microsoft!

    Have a nice day. ;-)