Hi all,

we are using windows services for Unix 3.5 to access folders from linux enterprise version3 upgrade 3.

somehow its not working , it says input/output error while doing cd /hosts/IP address of windows system.

I have shared the folder using NFS with root access in windows XP with SP2

we use a big 4TB storage on windows that we are trying to access linux.

anyone facing this problem. any configuraton to be done on SFU ??

is this good or is there any better way to access windows folder ???

really stuck on this,

thanks
amehere

What is 'linux enterprise version3 upgrade 3'?

This really appears to be a Windows support question. Have you tried http://support.microsoft.com ?

Its REDHAT ENTERPRISE LINUX Version3

troubleshooting sfu is purely a microsoft support question.

Its just a interface for importing/exporting windows/linux filesystems...

Can you just use smbclient to access the windows partition? I still wonder why is Microsoft coming out with this product...

I am also having this error on Windows Services for Unix. I have NFS sharing set up properly, but it gives input/ouput error.

The weird thing is, accessing NFS shares running on Linux systems from Windows works fine. Is there anyone here who has used SFU before? What are we doing wrong?

Another funny thing is, I mounted the NFS share on a Windows 2000 Pro computer on the same computer as drive F: and then went into drive F: and it said there were no files. ON THE SAME COMPUTER!!!

Perhaps another company has made a product that actually works??? Anyone know of any??? Does Cygwin support NFS sharing with Windows???

P.S. Sending us to Microsoft support would be like sending someone to Red Hat support. If someone here has used SFU, came across this problem, and solved it, they may as well tell us how they did it.

>> Perhaps another company has made a product that actually works??? >>

S-A-M-B-A
www.samba.org

I'm sorry, I thought I made it clear when I said another company that makes a working product I meant an NFS for Windows product. Please don't take offence to this, but there is obviously a reason we want NFS on Windows or else we would be using SAMBA right now, so running onto a thread about SFU and yelling SAMBA over and over again isn't exactly helping.

I think I'm just going to stick with SFU. Sharing folders on the Windows computer isn't that important, the main thing is the Windows computers being able to access the Linux server.

Ok, sorry that i stressed samba, but i thought it will fill the requirement.
what version of SFU are you using? what is ur windows OS(2k/xp/etc)? Do you have any domain authentication or it is just local user mapping?

Lol, I was just a bit grumpy last night. I probably came off a little harsh there. I think I may have to revert back to SAMBA. It's kind of a pain, I'm trying to move off of SAMBA and onto a pure Linux+NFS solution. Maybe MS sensed I was ditching their products and broke SFU on me

Anyways, I am running Win2K Pro with SFU 3.5. I have NFS set up on the network to allow access to anyone (no usernames i mean, i limit by IP address).

I'm super curious, what application on windows would require NFS over Samba?

Running Windows on a network of Unix machines already running NFS when I don't feel like setting up Samba on all of them

Samba does not integrate as well with a lot of Linux desktops and apps as NFS does either. For instance, you can't save from OpenOffice.org to a Samba share in Linux, with NFS you can.

On Windows it works with both.

I'm sorry, I am not trying to be difficult but I just went over to my wifes windows XP machine, opened up OO and saved a document to a drive that is shared through Samba on my linux server. It worked fine.

Not to be rude or anything, but I did clearly say Linux desktops. Many apps use different naming schemes for Samba shares. Gnome uses smb:///, whereas OpenOffice does not recognize that. NFS is mounted like a regular filesystem on both Windows and *nix, so it does not suffer this problem, regardless of OS.

I'll be honest with you.. I am trying to help but you are being rude. I needed clarification so that I better understood your problems.

Have fun solving your own problem!!!