X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: mwoehlke Subject: Re: nfs in client mode (winxp => linux) Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:50:09 -0500 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <87fyfcfekc DOT fsf AT newsguy DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <87fyfcfekc.fsf@newsguy.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com reader AT newsguy DOT com wrote: > I see lots of past messages here about setting up NFS in server mode, > but very little in the other direction. > > Going far enough back there was quite a long thread about SFU > (Services for unix) but I haven't been able to get that NFS client to > work. In fact I can't even really do anything with ksh shell it > provides. Every command gets a tty error. > > So has anything changed since the release of SFU 3.5? That has been a > good while. Is there still no cygwin NFS client for windows? I use both SFU (3.5, pre-2003R2) and SUA (5.2, Win2003R2 and later) NFS clients without too much trouble (nothing that doesn't seem to be general sharing problems, anyway; mostly it works about as well as anything over ssh - i.e. poorly). The trick is getting user name mapping set up correctly. You might want to ask on the Interix forums (http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/default.aspx) if things aren't working. Unfortunately there is no NFS client (not that I've ever heard of, anyway) that plays nicely with Cygwin (true symlink and permissions support, for example). -- Matthew Do not expose to hippos. Doing so may void your warranty. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/