Vista Business and Services for NFS

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I have Vista Business on my laptop, and need to be able to map a drive to my
Unix server data. I am unable to install WRQ NFS client - doesn't work on
Vista. Searching the internet shows that vista should have a Services for
NFS windows component, but it does not appear to be included in Vista
business. Is there any way to get this installed on my computer or will I
have to upgrade to Ultimate? Are there any other NFS client packages that
will work on Vista?
 
The Unix services are only part of Windows Vista Ultimate and Enterprise.
Looking at Ultimate, under Control Panel / Programs and Features / Turn
Windows features on or off, it shows "Services for NFS" with two choices;
"Administrative Tools" and "Client for NFS".

Perhaps there are third party solutions, but the Microsoft solution is in
Ultimate and Enterprise, not Business.

John Baker
 
I've been spending a week trying to find a NFS client for my 64-bit Vista
Business, and so far I've come up empty handed.
The closest I've found is Labtam's beta client (which refuse to work) and
upgrading from Business to Ultimate *only* to get the NFS client isn't an
option either, it's a EUR €170 upgrade, and it's just not worth it.

For now, I run Samba on my *nix systems to access the drives, far from the
perfect solution, but for now it helps me through the days.
 
I've been trying the NFS Cilents in Vista Ultimate and NFS Client and Server
in Server 2008. I find both of them really lacking. They always get
rejected by the Unix server (Slackware). This happens if I use a Server 2003
with User Name Mapping, and also if I don't use it. The clients are
supposed to be able to connect anonymously at the least, but I have no luck
even with that. I've had no problems with the Server 2003 connecting to NFS
on Linux and no problems with Win95 connecting to Samba on Linux.... but
Vista??? I don't get it?? I've been trying everything under the sun, and
the only luck I had was to install SFU 3.5 on the Server 2008. The NFS
client then works about 50% of the time and the NFS server fails completely
as does the mapping service. I know it's (SFU 3.5) not really compatable,
but I figured I'd try it. Until then I could use some help too... ???
 
I'm not sure if Robert L. was replying to my post, or to the original author.
However, I have no FAT32 partitions. My old laptop with Win95-B is on a
FAT16.
I don't have any problems accesing the Win95 from Vista or Server 2008, but
when trying to access a shared (standard, not NFS) drive, with no password
required on Vista or Server 08, the Win95 user is quized for a password to
IPC$, and allways rejected. I have set the Local Access Policy to use {LM &
NTLM & NTLMv2-if negotiated}. I will try and use NTLM only, as that works
good with Server 2003.

I'm also starting to suspect that part of my NFS problems on Vista and
Server 08, are caused by Server 03' which has the maps, and is the
go-between. I suspect that because I found it interferes with Samba
negotiations when online, whereas they work fine when it's offline. There is
also a router involved, but I do't think it causes any problems. Supposedly,
if there is no go-between mapper, Vista and server 08' will try and negotiate
an anonymous connection with the Linux NFS server. I know that "something"
must work. ......Too many protocols I think sometimes, but I'm I'm to test
this stuff, then I'm gonna test it to the max.

Back to the original author.... I have no opinion on if you should upgrade
to Vista Ultimate until I can get my own working, but you might give Samba a
shot. I say this because Samba will act more like a MS network than does
NFS, and your UNIX machine will show up in your Vista Network page. NFS
machines won't, and you are faced with having to explicitly map everything
out, and as we are finding out, that usually don't work. One of the
suggestions I made to MS was to put the old style network views back into
Vista and Server 08'.

I tried an old version of Intergraph (the predisessor to SFU 1.0) NFS Client
on Vista and it won't work. One think I found that works a little is SFU
3.5-- "IF" Vista will let you install it. It might and it might not.

Good Luck guys !
Gu11B1rd
 
I did a complete reinstall of Server 2003 and SFU 3.5
There was a lot of coruption in the SFU and also I messed up the mbr pretty
bad from another OS, so I just started over.

This time I set up PCNFS, Gateway, and Server for NFS. Everything works
alot better now, at least from the Server 2003, and the Win95 laptop. I
haven't messed much with the Server 2008 as it doesn't seem to like any other
computers and they don't like it :(( It's likely though that it and Vista
will at least be able to connect to UNIX via the Gateway on Server 2003.
Possibly also I might have better luck just going through the mapping server
too. We'll see.

I still have an issue though with trying to connect to Server 2008 and Vista
"from" the Win95 laptop. I've tried all the options in the local policy
authentication and nothing seems to change. I know that's not NFS related,
but it's got me stumped.

???
 
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