Need a network file system with Windows client and freeBSD server

[peter lageotakes]

--- Artem Koutchine <matrix at itlegion.ru> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I need sime kind of network file system which has a
> FreeBSD server and
> Windows clients (particulary Windows XP) and that
> FreeBSD file share
> must be mounted on Windows XP under a drive letter.
> Windows client
> is FAR FAR away and is behind nat. Traffic costs a
> lot, so that file system
> must not waste it for nothing. Of course, security
> is very important and
> security based on IP address is impossible, because
> client is behind nat.
> 
> I have checked the following:
> 
> 1) Samba3
> 
> I think i could use it with user security (not share
> or maybe mixed) but
> i am not sure about making it open to internet and
> also i think it wastes
> bandwidth. Am i wrong?
> 
> 2) Coda FS
> 
> Nice thing, but i could not figure out how to manage
> user passwords
> and there is no working windows xp client. I tried
> it - not luck for me.
> 
> 3) AFS
> 
> No idea is AFS Windows client exists and no FreeBSD
> server.
> 
> 4) NFS
> 
> Well, i like it very much because we use for freebsd
> file shareing since
> year 2000. Hoever, i could not find free NFS client
> for Windows (but, hell,
> i'll buy it) but what's worse i get figure out how
> to make authorizartion based on
> user/password and not on /etc/exports. I need
> something more secure. Also,
> am not sure about bandwidth usage.
> 
> Any help will be very appriciated.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Artem Kuchin
> General Director of IT Legion Ltd.
> Russia, Moscow
> www.itlegion.ru
> matrix at itlegion.ru
> +7 095 232-0338
> 
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Hello,
I would like to offer an appology for the off topic
response:

Just a side note about a free NFS client for Windows:
"Microsoft's Windows Services for UNIX Now Available
Free of Charge"
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5675
Microsoft SFU is made by Interix.com, which in turn is
based on OpenBSD.  If I am not mistaken, they do have
an NFS client.

http://www.asia.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/interop/sfu/nfsauth.mspx
"Client for NFS – The Windows NFS client component of
SFUv3. Client for NFS allows the machine on which it
is installed to access and use NFS resources anywhere
on the network"

Pete


	
		
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