Not right. Before samba was samba, I was using an NFS client for Win3.1
There is no free nfs client as far as I know but there are NFS clients
for WinNT and 95. Even more I was sharing a Novell volume through NFS
and if you can do that.... To mind comes Chameleon NFS and a solution
from SUN that I cannot remember the name. Anyway it is REALLY expensive.
something in the $300 back then per seat, and that was education
discount. Then agin it also had other stuff besides NFS (X manager,
Printers, etc.)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 4:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] question
>
>
> "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
>
