Actually, at the time I was surprised how well they worked, it was one
of the first NT 4 UNIX tools releases (I think 1.0 or 1.5). We were
using a mixed NT/SGI environment and the NFS tools worked like a charm,
BUT this was relatively small scale (2 SGI fileservers, a few SGI
compositing and Maya workstations and about 10 NT workstations using the
UNIX Tools NFS client). They seem to be in version 3.5 at the moment,
you can download 'm for free (though you have to register)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sfu/downloads/default.mspx
There also used to be a client-only distribution for workstations, but
haven't found it yet, judging by the size of the download this either
includes both server based as well as client based tools or includes
tools to distribute the right drivers etc. to clients.
I haven't used them in ages myself, but looking through the features and
docs it looks like a pretty nifty MS package.
Cygwin could also be a way to go, I know it has pretty good NFS server
support so I assume the NFS client should work equally well.
Hope this helps,
Erik
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 16:21 +0100, Andras Ikladi wrote:
> Plain samba, but unfortunatelyI don't really remember the config. That
> was in the period (around 2001 probably) when the linux implementation
> of sambe went through that huge refurbishment, which made it a lot
> better, but still not perfect for a medium sized fileserver.
> Now i'm gonna have to set it up for another company, so it's surfacing
> again..
>
> I was playing with the settings as far as I can remember, but no jump
> in speed really.
> It's marginally faster on linux, but usually network is a bit faster
> anyways, be that ftp..etc.
> Thanks for the Unix tools suggestion, I remember that (hmm..prolly
> cygwin has something as well), gonna check it out when I get there.
> Have you used it in production? I would be curious about general
> robustness, file locking/unlocking problems..etc.
>
> Thanks
> Andras
>
> There used to be a Win32 NFS client in the Unix tools for NT,
> not sure
> if they're still available, but I think they got abandoned and
> were
> turned into a free open download somewhere on the MS site. How
> are you
> using Samba...? Is it serving bog-standard SMB or CIFS...? Any
> special
> tweaks or other parameters...? Fact is that SMB is always
> slower than
> FTP or SCP, mainly because it's a very chatty protocol with
> quite a lot
> of overhead compared to ssh, nfs and ftp. SMB on a Samba
> server is
> faster than SMB on a Win server, but always slower than
> protocols
> specifically desgined to run on top of TCP/IP (which
> SMB/NetBIOS was
> not..) without the protocol overhead.
>
>
>
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