[TriLUG] Samba vs NFS -- Speed difference, why?

[Phillip Rhodes]

John Broome wrote:


> Since this is a mostly windows network we can't really use NFS instead
> of the samba.

Microsoft made SFU (Service for Unix) available for free (as in beer) a
while back, might that not allow you to use NFS?  There is an NFS client
included in the package.  Not sure which flavors of Windows are
supported, but it might be worth looking into if you haven't already.

<http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sfu/default.mspx>


TTYL,

Phil
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