Re: Help me (NFS under Tru64)

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_verizon.net)
Date: 05/17/03 

Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 17:42:24 GMT

Fredrik wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Have you looked at samba? (www.samba.org)
> This works perfect, makes your T64 machine looks lika a windows
> machine, just mount it like any other windoze machine. (\\t64\share)
> And it is very fast also.

That is an SMB tool, not NFS. I'm assume that Daniel mis-typed and
said "NFS" when he actually meant SMB, because runningn an SMB client
on Windows is asking to have your file system returned to you in a
blender....

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