X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:11:19 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems with nfs Message-ID: <20120424141119.GI25385@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4F9639D5.60200@samsung.com> <4F9653E9.2090307@samsung.com> <20120424073351.GC17620@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Apr 24 07:06, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 04/24/2012 12:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >The problem is that the NFS-server package in Cygwin is orphaned since > >the maintainer has moved on. If somebody is interested to pick up > >maintainance of that package, you're welcome. See > >http://cygwin.com/setup.html for more information. The cygport > >packaging method is the preferred packaging method these days. > Why don't we have an nfs-client package? Same reason - no > maintainer? I would think an nfs-client would be much more useful > than an nfs-server package. An NFS client is a filesystem driver. There are companies providing such NFS clients, one of them Microsoft with SFU on pre-Vista and the NFS client in Vista/W7 Ultimate/Enterprise. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple