From: Ben Rockwood (benr@cuddletech.com)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 16:50:13 EST
The concensus is that its a pile of junk (*shock*). Apparently several
people have tried it in the past, and everyone had significant problems
with it, generally just giving up in favor of a diffrent solution. My
experience thus far is no exception. Dispite digging around the net via
google, and the Microsoft support site, the documentation is spotty and
largely unhelpful.
I've since then convinced my manager that by using Samba (smbclient) we
can easily script file copies across the network to SMB/CIFS shares
without the need for a persistant connection of any kind, and he's come
around to letting me procceed that way.
One note, for anyone interested in trying the Microsoft Slaughterhouse for
UNIX kit, NFS serving ONLY works for NTFS file systems, if you use FAT the
server won't even install.
Thank you to the following who replied:
Tim Chipman <chipman@ecopiabio.com>
John Martinez <john@mtbiker.net>
Pablo Jejcic <pablo.jejcic@smartweb.rgu.ac.uk>
benr.
Origional Message:
> Hello Managers.
>
> I'm embaroused to even mention this, but I'm not sure where else to
> turn.
>
> My manager is intent on using the new Micros**t UNIX Connectivity Kit's
> NFS server on Windows 2000 in order to make it easier to transfer files
> between Solaris and Win boxes, instead of using Samba. But I've hit a
> wall. I don't have a Win32 machine so my manager installed the kit,
> and has an NFS export. I can mount it under both Linux and Solaris,
> but:1) I get permission denied when I try to enter that directory as
> root,
> even though the root-no-squash equivilent box is checked.2) Even when I
> entry the mount point as a non-root user I don't see any files.
> We're not trying to do any access control, we're not using a PC-NFS
> setup, and we don't use NIS. Shouldn't I be able to have him export a
> share and give full privs to that export and then I be able to use it?
> Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I know next to nothing about
> Win32... and generally, happily so.
> benr.
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