NFS client software to link Windows to Solaris?

[sg02...@gmail.com]

I have a Windows XP, 64 bit PC I want to link to a Solaris workstation.
So on the Solaris, I will share out the path /home/drives/N
On the Windows XP, 64 bit computer, I want to have a shared network drive
named N that will be mounted to that drive /home/drives/N.
When I copy data onto the drive N on the PC, I will be able to also access
that data at /home/drives/N on the Solaris station.

NFS client software, Interdrive, will allow me to do this, but only on
32-bit Windows XP. Anyone knows of an easy way to achieve what I want to do,
doing an NFS mount from a 64-bit Windows XP computer to a Solaris station?
Thanks in advance.

[andyw...@gmail.com]

Check cygwin.com
IIRC, Cygwin has a single-threaded NFS client, I even played with it few years ago and found it quite reliable, though a bit slow.

Most of folks use Samba (CIFS) for transparent access to Solaris filesystems from Windoze world.

[sg02...@gmail.com]

So after SAMBA is set up on the Solaris side, I would go to the XP computer.
Let's say the name for the Solaris station is called "server".
At "Start" from Windows XP, click on "Run", then type:

\\server <RETURN>

and then, all the shared drives on that Solaris system would appear?
then, just mount to whatever drive I need?

[Ian Collins]

just SMB mount the windoze share on your Solaris box, see mount_smbfs(1)

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Ian Collins

[andyw...@gmail.com]

Idea is correct, but the syntax looks wrong to me.
I would describe the steps as follows:

1. Set up Samba on Solaris box (procedures change dramatically from one Solaris release to another, make sure you get a proper documentation for *your* Solaris release)

2. export Samba shares and set up Samba users on Solaris box

3. Go to Windows box, open "My Computer", click on "Tools" -> Map network drive.
Fill in the fields with \\ServerName\ShareName, username and password

Alternatively, 3a. you can run
net use X: /user:UserName \\ServerName\ShareName password
(not sure about exact "net use" syntax)

[ChrisQ]

Have tried several windows nfs clients over the years, but the best in terms
of performance, reliability and value for money is the NfsAxe product from
LabF.com:

http://labf.com/nfsaxe/index.html

You get a windows nfs server, client and other utilities and there is 64 bit
support. Cost is $40 per single license and worth every cent, imho. It just
works out of the box. Trial version is a free download.

No connection, just a satisfied user :-)...

Regards,

Chris

[rkel...@gmail.com]

You could also download Microsoft Windows Services for Unix. Free from Microsoft. Can be tricky to configure, but stable once it is setup.

[ChrisQ]

On 03/10/13 19:19, rkel...@gmail.com wrote:
> You could also download Microsoft Windows Services for Unix. Free from Microsoft. Can be tricky to configure, but stable once it is setup.

That does work, but last time I looked, the install was several hundred
megabytes, with a lot of cruft that you don't need if all you really
wanted was a simple nfs client. There were other issues that I don't
recall as well. If you want free unix functionality under Windows, cygwin
is my favourite choice, with familiar X apps like nedit working without
issues.
The main advantage being that it installs in it's own directory tree and
afaik, doesn't do too much hacking around at registry level.

Would rather pay a reasonable fee for something that actually works as
claimed,
and without side effects :-)...

Regards,

Chris