So that does it buy you...faster speeds to access files? I'm using Win7
home staring on mine...and have 40TB of shares.
On 3/5/2013 7:29 AM, Brian Weeden wrote:
NFS is a much more efficient protocol for serving network files compared to
SMB.
I'd need a server module for NFS, not a client one. There are a couple of
NFS server apps for Windows out there (FreeNFS and Hanewin) but people have
had mixed results using them for my application.
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Brian
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Anthony Q. Martin <amar...@charter.net>wrote:
Why do you need NFS? I'm just curious.
From what I have read. if you are running Win7 Ultimate, there is a client
for NFS that you have to install, because it does not come pre-installed.
http://answers.microsoft.com/**en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-**
networking/nfs-client-for-**windows-7/8e1d80e4-f601-4758-**
9711-72c8b003e5c9<http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-networking/nfs-client-for-windows-7/8e1d80e4-f601-4758-9711-72c8b003e5c9>
http://www.blackviper.com/**windows-services/client-for-**nfs/<http://www.blackviper.com/windows-services/client-for-nfs/>
On 3/4/2013 4:03 PM, Brian Weeden wrote:
Need some advice on OS for my media server. I've been using Win7 for a
while, but need to move to something that supports NFS. From what I've
read, Win7 doesn't and won't.
While I'm aware of the *nix world out there that might be an option,
nearly
all of my experience is with Windows and given that I really don't have
time to learn a new OS I will need to stick with Windows.
With the demise of Windows Home Server, I think my options are Windows
Server 2008 or the new Server 2012 Essentials. What are the pros/cons of
each?
My media server does triple duty: it hosts the 20 TB of files for network
clients (using FlexRAID), it acts as a HTPC frontend for the downstairs
theater (using XBMC), and it serves as a ripping/converting machine
(through RDP access to a second client session).
I guess another option would be to separate out the fileserver from the
frontend/ripping duties, but that would involve some major system reconfig
and additional hardware that I would really not prefer to do.
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Brian
