Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:06:39 -0700 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS Server and MS Windows Message-ID: <20060619220639.GA4063@alexis.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <3610.84.18.2.11.1150748233.squirrel@llca513-a.servidoresdns.net> References: <3610.84.18.2.11.1150748233.squirrel@llca513-a.servidoresdns.net>
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On Mon, Jun 19, 2006, DSA - JCR wrote: >Hi all > >I am mounting a NFS server (FreeBSD 6.1 "amd64") for a MS Windows Network >for a customer and I see that I can not see the NFS server from windows >boxes. > >Must I install Samba for that? or anything in the MS Windows boxes? >I thougth that Windows understand NFS but seems to be not. AFAIK Windows requires additional software to access NFS file systems. Samba makes directories available to Windows' native networking so requires no additional software on Windows. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 ``People from East Germany have found the West so confusing. It's so much easier when you have only one party.'' -- Linus Torvalde, Linux Expo Canada when asked about confusion over many Linux distributions.
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