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Re: Problems with nfs


On Apr 24 07:06, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> On 04/24/2012 12:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >The problem is that the NFS-server package in Cygwin is orphaned since
> >the maintainer has moved on.  If somebody is interested to pick up
> >maintainance of that package, you're welcome.  See
> >http://cygwin.com/setup.html for more information.  The cygport
> >packaging method is the preferred packaging method these days.
> Why don't we have an nfs-client package? Same reason - no
> maintainer? I would think an nfs-client would be much more useful
> than an nfs-server package.

An NFS client is a filesystem driver.  There are companies providing
such NFS clients, one of them Microsoft with SFU on pre-Vista and the
NFS client in Vista/W7 Ultimate/Enterprise.


Corinna

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