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Date:      Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:17:02 +1100
From:      "David Uzzell" <duzzell@saintspc.com.au>
To:        "Jeremy Chadwick" <yoshi@parodius.com>, "Alfred Perlstein" <bright@wintelcom.net>, "Danny" <dannyh@idx.com.au>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: LAN Questions.
Message-ID:  <001901bf45e1$b1ab1280$630308d2@web.saintspc.com.au>
References:  <3.0.32.19991214135718.006fe000@idx.com.au>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny" <dannyh@idx.com.au>
To: "Jeremy Chadwick" <yoshi@parodius.com>; "Alfred Perlstein"
<bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: LAN Questions.


> Then in response to the non- freebsd alternative. (note that I am not a
> Microsoft advocate. I am all for freebsd. I am just doing my job.)
>
> Question:
>
> 1)what kind of networking approach would I use to solve the problem?
>
> 2) Who would I configure Windows NT to do the job? Is NT a better solution
> for this job?
>
> 3) Any other ideas?
>
> Looking forward to your feedback.
>
> (Please not I am not a Microsoft advocate. I am all for Freebsd and I am
> only doing my job whether the solution may require Linux, NT, Netware or
> even Freebsd.)
>
>
>
> At 02:21 13/12/99 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 02:30:45AM -0800, bright@wintelcom.net wrote:
> >> > - If I configure Freebsd as a NFS server is it possible I can make
> Windows
> >> > 98 a NFS client?
> >>
> >> I haven't heard of a free NFS client for windows, you're better off
> >> going with samba and using the native (and free) windows networking
> >> share system.
> >
> > (NOTE: I've removed all other CCd individuals from this mail,
> > including freebsd-questions).
> >
> > There is (was?) a free Windows 9x NFS client, which may or may
> > not be supported or even listed as valid software any longer
> > at http://www.truegrid.com/nfs.html. It seems this link no
> > longer works, though.
> >
> > If you need a copy of this software, I do have it. Ask me for
> > it and I will give it to you: it IS free, after all. Keep in mind
> > that it's nothing more than a port of NFS utils & daemons ported
> > to Win9x. I've yet to see it fail me, aside from tossing up some
> > pointless warnings now and then.
> >
> > I do not recommend using NFS under Windows 9x. I highly recommend
> > finding a commercial solution and moving to Windows NT if you
> > wish to do NFS under Windows. Or, from what I've been told,
> > Windows 2000 should have native NFS support (how good, if at
> > all, is yet to be determined).
> >
> > Free is not always better. And no, I am not a Microsoft advocate;
> > see below.
> >
> >> > - Maybe I better solution that may not involve Freebsd.
> >>
> >> That's up to you, but challenging people on the list with a statement
> >> like that is _not_ the way to get help.
> >
> > Give the chap some breathing room. It sounds like he's keeping
> > an open mind: FreeBSD is not the solution for every problem,
> > you know.
> >
> > Any decent system administrator follows this rule: use the
> > right tool for the job.
> >
> > In this case, FreeBSD may not be the "right tool," and there's
> > nothing wrong with that. I find the Samba solution nothing more
> > than a hack on top of a hack, not to mention an administrators
> > nightmare.
> >
> >--
> >| Jeremy Chadwick                                   yoshi@parodius.com |
> >| Parodius Networking                             yoshi@dreamscape.org |
> >| UNIX System Administrator                   http://www.parodius.com/ |
> >|   "Linux is only free if your time has no value." - Jamie Zawinski   |
> >
>
>
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