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Date:      Tue, 21 Dec 1999 08:14:00 +1100
From:      Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <yoshi@parodius.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: LAN Questions.
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19991221081353.01075978@idx.com.au>

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In relation to the non freebsd solution. The IT Manager insist that the
solution must be "Microsoft". (Note I don't like Microsoft also but I am
just doing my job)

Then how can I solve the problem using Microsoft solutions?

Any books, web sites, advice will be appreicated.

Looking forward to your feedback.

Danny


(dannyh@idx.com.au)




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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