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Date:      Tue, 03 Apr 2001 18:31:51 -0700
From:      Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com>
To:        Andy Myers <acmyers@cfl.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: NFS w/ Win2k PC.
Message-ID:  <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AF925@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
In-Reply-To: <200104040126.SAA62525@akira.lanfear.com>

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You need to have Unix Services for Windows installed on your Win2K box.
There is no native NFS support in Windows.

HTH,

Drew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc W [mailto:mwlist@lanfear.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 6:26 PM
> To: Andy Myers; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re:NFS w/ Win2k PC.
>
>
>
>
> > -----------------------------
> > From:  "Andy Myers" <acmyers@cfl.rr.com>
> > To:  <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > Subject:  NFS w/ Win2k PC.
> > Sent:  04/03/01 18:52>
> >
> >
> > Hello All.
> >
> > I'm trying to connect to the filesystem of my freebsd box from my
> win2k pc using NFS.  I set up the NFS server on the freebsd box as
> instructed at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/nfs.html. I havent had
> any luck connecting.   I have no problem connecting via
> telnet or ftp.
>
> >
> > Has anyone encountered this problem b/4 with a win2k machine?   Is
> there something special that must be done with windows machines on the
> network?
> >
> > Thanks for your help in advance!
> >
> > -Jim Heineken
> >
>
>
>     I assume in that I'm asking the extremely obvious here,
> but are you
> sure that your version of Windows 2000 supports NFS ?? the versions we
> have handy here have no NFS support built-in that we can find.
>
>     If you just want to share between UN*X and windows, Samba is
> definitely an excellent solution ...
>
>     marc.
>
>
>
> Marc W, San Francisco, CA
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