im looking for an NFS client to access data on a linux system from winblows, could anyone suggest ?

Windows has NFS? Or are you referring to a Windows Share you want to view in Linux? If your just wanting to view a Windows share, setup Samba.. once the share is mounted, you can use any filemanager you want to view the files.. or just simple browse to the directory in a console or terminal..

that's the problem, winblows does not, I need to access data ON Linux FROM winblows and the other way around but that's not so important the client side is important, I need a winblows NFS client, but if possible server too

Windows can't read NFS shares.. like I mentioned above.. Samba is used to share filesystems between Linux and Windows..

with the appropriate software it can, that's why crossmeta (and some other proprietary NFS for winblows) can, im sure there is some GPL program that can do that too

Good Luck.... I don't know of any and samba is so simple, I just use it for such cases and there is no need for third party software to launch and use, you just see the shares as if they were local, like NFS does in Linux to Linux.

winblows has services which are launched when (NOT) such shares are accessed, and they suck..............no need to tell why is there ?
I need an NFS client for winblows, samba accesses winblows from linux, does samba access linux from winblows ?

Okay, first of all, stop calling it winblows, it makes you sound childish. And if you really think it blows, why are you using it then?

Secondly.. Samba is used to share files between Linux and Windows.. like mentioned before.. you create a share from Linux with Samba or you can access a Windows share in Linux from a Windows host..

You can have your NFS shares setup for Linux and you can setup the same shares using Samba so Windows can see and access it.. its not Brain Surgery to understand.. perhaps you need to go read the docs at www.samba.org to understand it more..

you meen samba is also a server that can run on linux and have a dild*** client access it ?

yes the way i understand is there are 2 parts to samba in a linux system - the client and the server.
the server 'serves' the data on the linux system so that windows can view it as if it were another windows machine.
the client is what allows the linux machine to view the windows share and you can mount any just like you would an extra hard disk.

ahh guess what ? the dild*** client can't connect to it because the workstation service is not started
but since the workstation service doesn't exist in can't be started ehehe, too bad gonna have to go for NFS I guess
or maybe I will try samba with workstation service enabled in nuhi's nLite, need to "compile" a new dild*** 2000 ehehe

thanks for teh help, maybe someone knows some other alternative, or maybe an samba client that runs on dild*** that doesn't require workstation service ?

Windows does not need to have anything change to allow it to view samba shares.

On the linux box just set up the samba server and then you can share folders and thats it sorted. As long as the firewall doesnt block it then it will work. You only need the samba client on linux if you want to view the windows shares on it.

Couldnt see your distro but I use SuSe and that has a nice setup feature in the control centre under I think System->Network Services->Samba Server. Enable that to Start at boot and then configure the shares.

alternatively go download the free Microsoft Services for Unix(SFU) tools that include an NFS server/client.....

That sounds a bit easier but i guess you would still have to set up NFS on the linux box so it could just be easier to setup samba. Dunno but atleast you have the choice.

imho, every major distro has NFS down to a simple edit of one file, samba could be quite more complex

hell, it's almost as easy as:

echo "/path/to/share ip.address.to.connect(rw,no_root_squash)" >> /etc/exports && exportfs -va

provided nfs is actually running