From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 20 00:22:58 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 AF04116A474 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:22:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E67343D48 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:22:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.6+UW06.06/8.13.6+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k5K0MvNT025507 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:22:57 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [128.208.7.203] (pinocchio.dyn.cs.washington.edu [128.208.7.203]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.6+UW06.06/8.13.6+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k5K0MvOS015114 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:22:57 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: <3610.84.18.2.11.1150748233.squirrel@llca513-a.servidoresdns.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) X-Priority: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <18518C2D-75B2-4A7A-91AC-B4E15B639BFC@u.washington.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Garrett Cooper Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:26:19 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __HAS_X_PRIORITY 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Subject: Re: NFS Server and MS Windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:22:58 -0000 On Jun 19, 2006, at 3:38 PM, FBSD_UG wrote: > > On 19 jun 2006, at 22:17, DSA - JCR wrote: > >> Must I install Samba for that? or anything in the MS Windows boxes? >> I thougth that Windows understand NFS but seems to be not. Windows doesn't understand NFS; this is almost purely a Unix creation. I suggest installing Samba if you have a large number of machines (mostly that you do not control), which need access to the fileserver or for clients that aren't incredibly computer-savvy since you won't need to provide many more instructions than what's already available for installing the software and configuring/mounting shares. Plus, there are many tie-ins for kerberos, etc so you won't have to deal with setting up or working around a kludgy authentication system (sort of an issue with SFU as mentioned below). > This might come in handy too: > > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/opssfu.mspx That is a good solution, but you don't want to have to require more than 10+ machines to have this installing since users will start griping and this may create more of a headache for you than it's worth. -Garrett