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Can't Mount Root of SCO Openserver 5.0.6 using NFS in Windows Server 2003

Tags: SCO, Microsoft, OpenServer, Windows Server, 5.0.6, 2003 R2
My scenario is that I need to mount the root directory (/) of a SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 using NFS on a Windows Server 2003 R2.  I have installed SFU 3.5.  I have export the / directory on the SCO Server.  I cannot mount it in Windows.  When I try to map a drive to xx.xx.xx.xx:/, it says "The drive could not be mapped because no network was found."  I can successfully mount any other exported directories of the SCO server so I at least know that it NFS does work.  I believe it is a limitation of UNIX Services for Windows, but I may/hopefully am wrong.

Since I couldn't mount the root directory, I then decided to try another way.  I thought I could create a symbolic link to / in hopes that I could then mount in windows as /rootlink, but SCO cannot export a symbolic link.

Any ideas how I can get one of these options to work and/or a different idea on how I can get access to the SCO / directory from the Windows Server?  All help is appreciated!
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