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NFS client for Windows XP?



Robert La Ferla wrote:
> I am looking to mount a Linux EXT3 filesystem using NFS on Windows XP. 
> What's the best way (free) way to do it 

I don't know of a free NFS client for Windoze, but you can have NFS and
Samba both export the same share.  So unless you've got a good reason not
to, samba's the way to go.

> and are there any issues with using ext3 from Windows?

Should be completely transparent to the client what the server's underlying
filesystem is with both NFS and Samba.  The one thing you'll notice though
is that since Windows doesn't know about symlinks, so Samba makes them look
like real files (but it "does the right thing" from the unix perspective).

HTH,
Matt

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