Connect to NFS shares from Windows?

pwc101 · 09-26-2007, 10:29 AM

I've been using a samba server to connect to our *nix filesystems here at work, but the samba server is painfully slow, whereas the NFS fileserver is very quick (from a networking point of view). I've googled a bit and come across the Microsoft's SFU (Services for Unix) which seems to include an NFS client, but it seems mostly designed for Windows 2003... is this correct? All I want to do is access my NFS space from Windows. Are there other programs which have just this in mind?

Any thoughts welcome.

brianL · 09-26-2007, 10:55 AM

MS SFU works with XP Pro, and the Cygwin package list has a nfs-server available but no client. Don't know anything about nfs myself.

pwc101 · 09-26-2007, 11:07 AM

I'm in the process of downloading the SFU package. It's going at a measly 61.5 kB/s so it's taking ages, but I'll report back when I've had a go at using it.

This thread seems to have some useful info in it too.

brianL · 09-26-2007, 02:52 PM

I tried SFU a while ago - only the GNU tools,etc - but the versions were older than those in Cygwin or MSys, so I dumped it. Also, there's a .sh script used to download extra stuff, and I had problems with that. I read somewhere that Debian were going to start porting software to it, if so, that would be an improvement.