[wellylug] NFS for Windows2000?

[Grant McLean]

I'd definitely recommend Samba as the simplest approach for
working with windows boxes.  For a home network you probably
don't need any authentication on the Samba shares and that's
the main thing that makes setup tricky.

NFS does make sense for Linux to Linux but it's not exactly
mainstream for sharing files with Windows.  It also won't
help with sharing printers which Samba can do.

Cheers
Grant

Robin Hinde wrote:
> Currently setting up a server at home and looking at some options.
> 
> I'll probably use NFS for sharing files to other Linux boxes, as it seems easy 
> to set up and works OK. Certainly easier to set up than Samba :-)
> 
> Is NFS a reasonable system to use with Windows boxes, and what are the 
> advantages/disadvantages in a simple home network setting? Is there a free 
> (pref OS) NFS client that works with Win2000? I seem to remember WFW3.11 used 
> to include one.
> 
> TIA 
> 
>   -=rjh=-
>