NFS Win2k and Unix

[James Odak]

Looking for some feedback on using an NFS mount to share data between a HP-UX 10.20 server and a windows 2000 server
any bugs, quirks, problems i should be aware of?

Jim

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Hi James:

I've done it both ways with the Windows box being a server and with the Windows box being a client. It works well but some of the gotchas are windows user/unix user id mapping. With some implementations you have to build a table of UNIX uid's/gid's to their Windows counterparts. Other implementations can read the NIS maps and do this for you - if the names can be matched. When sharing text files, remember there is no magic bullet to automatically do the CR/LF -> LF conversions for you. One commercial product that offers both an NFS client and an NFS server for Windows is Xlink. http://www.xlink.com

You might also look into Samba as an alternative.

[harry d brown jr]

I agree with Clay, that samba is a great alternative, especially when you get your HPux boxes up to HPux 11i.

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harry