On Tue, Dec 05, 2000, Omer Zak wrote about "[OFF TOPIC] Re: Request for NT NFS server
recommendation.":
> Ask for recommended brands of pork, beacon or shrimps in a mailing list
> devoted to Jewish halacha; or for the best wine and whiskey brands in a
> fundamental Moslem mailing list.
>
> However, you'll find that we are very liberal and enlightened: we only
> sprinkle stale penguin pee on people who ask Windows NT related questions.
It's more like asking on a Jewish mailing-list "where can I find Glat-Kosher
shrimp-lookalike that my gentile friends can serve me?"
He's probably looking for NFS for NT because he *does* use Linux (or another
Unix), but his NT-using friends [gentiles] that want to serve him files
[food] still want to do that in their familiar way [serving shrimp].
You also make up other shrimp analogies for other NT-Unix mixing situations:
1. putting an SMB server on the Unix machine: "where can I find Glat-Kosher
shrimp-lookalikes that I can serve to my gentile friends?"
2. putting NFS clients on the NT machines: "my gentile friends are used to
shrimp - what doctor do you recommend to install a chicken-digesting module
inside them?" ;)
3. putting SMB client on the Unix machine: "Can you recommend a chemical
to transform the nasty shrimp my gentile friends serve me into chicken?"
And a more serious note - I don't know anything about NFS servers on NT, but
instead of putting an NFS server on the NT machine you can also consider
putting an SMB client on the Linux machine, to mount "normal" NT-exported
filesystems. This is very easy to do in Linux: put in /etc/fstab a like like
//server/dir /mnt/dir smbfs uid=nyh,gid=nyh,username=me,password=Pasw0rd 0 0
See man 'man smbmount' for more information.
Of course, replacing the directories, username, and other details, with the
correct ones.
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