Client for Samba Networks

[Jeremy Allison]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 05:42:02PM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> > He does hit upon a very important point though. If such a thing were
> > enabled, it would have simplified the job of interoperability greatly.
> > In fact Samba might never have come into being.
> 
> Ahh...how quickly you have forgotten PC-NFS.  The reason Samba is so
> popular is that it requires no client side changes.  As a former sysadmin,
> being able to control the server is much easier than trying to control
> Windows desktop clients.  In fact, think of what it would take to upgrade
> a redirector of a network of moderate size.  Now think of what it takes
> to upgrade 30 Samba servers to fix a interop problem with a new service
> pack.

I used to support PC-NFS for Sun. I still have nightmares about it... so
I definately can't forget it :-).

A free - *working* - nfs client for Windows would have changed things
greatly (IMHO :-).

Jeremy.