[TriLUG] nfs client for windows

[Ron Joffe]

I have no experience with Win based VMware, but on Linux based VMWare there is 
an option to share disks between host OS and VM, maybe something similar ?

And you should be able to make a very stripped down Linux VM to handle the NFS 
to SAMBA bridge.

Ron



On Wednesday 18 June 2008 19:27, Mark Fowle wrote:
> Well, maybe -- Right now the first half of the product is contained on a
> Windwos 2003 server, running SCO in a VM image -- The SCO images is so
> constrained - but a small linux vm just doing samba ...   I'll have to
> try that to see what kind of overhead...
>
> On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 18:47 -0400, Ron Joffe wrote:
> > Mark, can you do a man-in-the middle approach ?
> >
> > Low end linux box reading NFS from SCO and providing SAMBA to the windows
> > box ?
> >
> > Ron
> >
> > On Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:42, Mark Fowle wrote:
> > > Thanks - Chameleon was a very good product - a bit ahead of its time -
> > > I I remember those days well --  The company I work for loves SFU, but
> > > it has so many issues I don't know where to start. The only two pieces
> > > it needs is RSH (which I found and it works great) and of course
> > > "mount" to mount two unix shares - I've done samba (Including building
> > > a lovely AD) in a lot of environments, but not on SCO - and in this
> > > case I can't add anything to the SCO environment without months of
> > > regression testing to our application (and by that I mean anything
> > > necessary to build the binaries) - ugh..  I found several "for cost"
> > > clients that seem to do what I want - but I was hoping that some one,
> > > some where had developed a nice client that, well, was free :-)    They
> > > certainly give the "Sever" side away for free - lol.
> > >
> > > - Mark
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 21:46 -0700, Marty Ferguson wrote:
> > > > SAMBA is universally the same.  and if you read the history of SAMBA,
> > > > you will discover
> > > > that it was originally developed due to the can of worms you are
> > > > going to be dealing with
> > > > using an NFS client on PCs.  Chameleon went the way of the dinosaur a
> > > > long long time ago.
> > > >
> > > > So do yourself a favor, and rather than investing  your intellect and
> > > > talents on a dead-end,
> > > > give yourself the expertise you need and provide yourself with a body
> > > > of knowledge you
> > > > will use over and over again in the future.
> > > >
> > > > Best Regards,
> > > > Marty
> > > >
> > > > Mark Fowle wrote:
> > > > > Well - I thought of that - but I can't find much for configuring
> > > > > SAMBA on SCO (OpenServer 5.7) /*ugh*/
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 4:32 PM, ak dom <akdom2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > >>>  Anyone know of a "free" nfs client for windows?  Windows for
> > > > >>> Unix
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>  serverices 3.5 doesn't work as well as I had hoped....
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>  Thanks,
> > > > >>>  Mark
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I know this may not be the response you were looking for, but is
> > > > >> setting up SAMBA out of the question?  I know it's added
> > > > >> complexity and everything, but that's how we dealt with the issue
> > > > >> at work.  Also I think cygwin has NFS support... unsure of how
> > > > >> well it works.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Alex Kesling
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
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