"Lord And Master;)" wrote:
> Is it possible to have windows 98 share drives using nfs instead of
> samba?
Short Answer: NO
Longer Answer :NO!
Reasoned Answer: Samba was created mostly by Andrew Tridgell from some
work he did to make DOS use some unix files, sometime in ancient
history. Of course, the contributors list is much longer now! It's
stated purpose is not only to make UNIX and Windows play nice but also
to SHARE. Without this protocol translator known as Samba, they don't
share. Note that the approach taken is that as Windows does its 800 lb
gorilla act, Samba reverse engineers to stay compatible.
It should actually be possible to write a program for 98 to use nfs. If
you can get me the Windows source code, I'll be happy to undertake the
task :-). Or Microsoft could write some extension to Win9x and WinNT
to do so, but they don't.
Civileme
