Re: [SFU] Services for Unix [anyone using it]

Malke <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I'm hoping to find someone who has some personal experience with it.
Following the documentation hasn't produced a working setup.

[ `it' being using SFU (Services For Unix) to setup NFS between winxp
and linux boxes -ed hp]

Can't help you with NFS because on my mixed Windows/Linux network I use
Samba. Normally you'd use NFS in an all-*nix network.

What are you trying to do? Give details. Are we talking about a business
with a Windows server and 400 workstations or sharing files between 3
home computers?

I'm trying to setup NFS using SFU as my post said. I'm not trying to
setup samba.

Its a 6-7 computer home network. I know about samba and have samba
setup. But now I'm experimenting with SFU and NFS.

The literature says it allows one to use NFS between windows and unix.
I'm familiar with NFS in all unix environment, it is a very good tool.
And like my subject line says... I'm asking about SFU and NFS on a
mixed network.

Please, any more prospective respondents, I'm asking very specifically
about SFU (Services for Unix). A product promoted by Microsoft at one
time as a way to handle mixed network communications between windows
and unix machines.

Replies that are not about the subject, tend to derail the subject
completely and will not be of much use in getting some dialog about SFU.

Ths SFU product cost $99 from microsoft at one time but now is offered
for free from microsofts, web sites.

However as I understand it the product will not be updated beyond the
current version (3.5) since many of its attributes and tools are
apparently available in windows 2003 server OS. Microsoft does say it
will continue to support the existing version until 2010.

The tool was once promoted by MS as a reliable and professional way to
handle the problem of mixed networks with Windows and Unix machines.
.

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