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#288751 - 24/10/2006 21:13 Recommend a non-sucky windows NFS client.
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3996 Loc: Manchester UK	The subject says it all really, I'm getting really bad Samba performance on a couple of XServes at work. All my mac/linux clients I've moved over to NFS and seen massive speed and performance increases. The windows clients however are stuck with SMB for the time being. The only one I've found so far is NFSAXE which is a tad clunky. Commercial software is fine as long as it's not £100's per workstation (of which there are approx. 25). _________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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#288752 - 24/10/2006 21:50 Re: Recommend a non-sucky windows NFS client. [Re: andym]
mlord carpal tunnel Registered: 29/08/2000 Posts: 14493 Loc: Canada	Mmm.. I wonder if anyone has ever done a Cygwin port of NFS.. ?
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#288753 - 25/10/2006 00:16 Re: Recommend a non-sucky windows NFS client. [Re: andym]
wfaulk carpal tunnel Registered: 25/12/2000 Posts: 16706 Loc: Raleigh, NC US	Microsoft's own Services for Unix is supposed to contain the aptly named "Client for NFS". Have you tried that? I haven't. _________________________ Bitt Faulk
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#288754 - 25/10/2006 01:37 Re: Recommend a non-sucky windows NFS client. [Re: wfaulk]
mlord carpal tunnel Registered: 29/08/2000 Posts: 14493 Loc: Canada	Quote: Microsoft's own Services for Unix is supposed to contain the aptly named "Client for NFS". Have you tried that? I haven't. Mmm.. that's interesting. I'll pull it down and try it here on XP inside of VMware..
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#288755 - 25/10/2006 02:14 Re: Recommend a non-sucky windows NFS client. [Re: mlord]
mlord carpal tunnel Registered: 29/08/2000 Posts: 14493 Loc: Canada	Quote: Quote: Microsoft's own Services for Unix is supposed to contain the aptly named "Client for NFS". Have you tried that? I haven't. Mmm.. that's interesting. I'll pull it down and try it here on XP inside of VMware.. Nope. The installer refuses to run on XP-Home, even though the software is compatible. And it's so bloody cryptic I cannot figure out how to run the NFS parts. I don't have XP-Pro under VMware, and there's no way I'm running this crud on a real machine. Cheers
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#288756 - 25/10/2006 02:27 Re: Recommend a non-sucky windows NFS client. [Re: mlord]
mlord carpal tunnel Registered: 29/08/2000 Posts: 14493 Loc: Canada	Quote: Quote: Quote: Microsoft's own Services for Unix is supposed to contain the aptly named "Client for NFS". Have you tried that? I haven't. Mmm.. that's interesting. I'll pull it down and try it here on XP inside of VMware.. Nope. The installer refuses to run on XP-Home, even though the software is compatible. And it's so bloody cryptic I cannot figure out how to run the NFS parts. I don't have XP-Pro under VMware, and there's no way I'm running this crud on a real machine. Mmm.. actually, it really looks like a nearly full POSIX suite for Windows -- like maybe they took the Cygwin toolkit and repackaged it or something. And added a crippled NFS client: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-01/msg00507.html
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#288757 - 25/10/2006 06:51 Re: Recommend a non-sucky windows NFS client. [Re: mlord]
andy carpal tunnel Registered: 10/06/1999 Posts: 5916 Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK	Services for Unix existed before Cygwin came along and Windows has had a Posix personality of sorts since NT 3.5 _________________________ Remind me to change my signature to something more interesting someday
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#288758 - 25/10/2006 11:51 Re: Recommend a non-sucky windows NFS client. [Re: andy]
mlord carpal tunnel Registered: 29/08/2000 Posts: 14493 Loc: Canada	Quote: Services for Unix existed before Cygwin came along and Windows has had a Posix personality of sorts since NT 3.5 Wow. Cygwin has been around for a very long time, too. Cheers
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#288759 - 25/10/2006 17:16 Re: Recommend a non-sucky windows NFS client. [Re: mlord]
andy carpal tunnel Registered: 10/06/1999 Posts: 5916 Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK	Looks like Services for Unix is actually Interix which started life around the same time that Cygwin did (all the way back in 1995). _________________________ Remind me to change my signature to something more interesting someday
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#288760 - 25/10/2006 20:45 Re: Recommend a non-sucky windows NFS client. [Re: andy]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3996 Loc: Manchester UK	SFU was a tad cryptic so I gave up! I ended up using a linux box to NFS mount to the XServe then serve the same directory using it's own samba server. Clunky but it worked..... and fast too! Anyways, it turns out the Samba performance problem was masking a fundamental issue with Windows Quicktime which resulted in segmented .dv files with a .mov wrapper not opening, the macs open them no problems...... So they've agreed to replace the windows machines with macs instead. Happy days!!!! _________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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