Subject: RE: nfs-server 2.2.47-2
From: Larry Hall <[email-masked]>
To: "Robb, Sam" <[email-masked]>, "Nerijus Baliunas" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:40:16 -0500

At 05:25 PM 11/18/2003, Robb, Sam you wrote:
>> Latest cygwin, w2k, FAT, /etc/exports:
>
>Using nfs-server with a FAT filesystem is questionable.
>
>We've tried, and not been able to get it nfsd running
>properly except on an NTFS filesystem with ntsec enabled.
>
>You might want to try enabling the ntea option (CYGWIN=ntea),
>but I suggest you read the Cygwin user guide about this
>option before deciding if you want to experiment using it.

And 'ntea' is only an option for FAT drives (or technically, NTFS but 
that's not really interesting since the inception of 'ntsec').  If your
FAT drive is really FAT32, there's no option for you currently.  PTC. :-)

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