[expert] PC NFS client using pcnfsd or NIS

[Mads Rasmussen]

Hi there,   Have anyone tried installing a NFS server and then accessing from a windows pc (95/98)? I know that Samba is a better and perhaps more secure solution but my provider has bloked the samba ports. I have a NFS server running on my linux mandrake and I am able to mount them from another linux system but alas not from windows.   My first idea was to install pcnfsd the pc authentication demon but I think it messes up when the system uses shadowed passwords. I installed the shadowed verson of pcnfsd but still no access. By the way, the configuration of the demon is rather weird. You don�t specify anything related to the users.   My second option was to use NIS although I�d rather not since the server is standalone and therefore I don�t need the NIS distributed features. However the pc clients I have tried to use is giving the option of authentication using NIS.   I now have a NIS server up and running but my pc client still doesn�t authenticate.   I have tried the following clients:   ICE-NFS OmniNet Lite   Any ideas????   With regards,   Mads Rasmussen