From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 19 22:06:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4B6316A479 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:06:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bill@celestial.com) Received: from mail.mi.celestial.com (hayek.celestial.com [192.136.111.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D956643D6E for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:06:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bill@celestial.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mi.celestial.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7A60761C6; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:06:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mi.celestial.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (alexis.mi.celestial.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 01234-02-3; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:06:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.mi.celestial.com (Postfix, from userid 203) id C34CF761BC; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:06:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:06:39 -0700 From: Bill Campbell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060619220639.GA4063@alexis.mi.celestial.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3610.84.18.2.11.1150748233.squirrel@llca513-a.servidoresdns.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3610.84.18.2.11.1150748233.squirrel@llca513-a.servidoresdns.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mi.celestial.com Subject: Re: NFS Server and MS Windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@celestial.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:06:48 -0000 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.