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
