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Need to find a way to bridge Windows XP client and Linux share folders
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All my users are using windows xp. And right now I have a linux server internally that I use as a bridge to an external server (linux also) to display the shares of that external server.
So the bridge server shows the share available on the external server and the users just do a \\bridgeserver\ and they can see all the server.
Now I would like to eol that bridge server and have it replace by a Windows server and it needs to perform that same fonction. How can I do that?
I know that Windows 2008 has a NFS add-on but I am not sure it can acted as a bridge. It more looks like it allow you to create local share that Linux users can see and use using Linux permission.
tx!
All my users are using windows xp. And right now I have a linux server internally that I use as a bridge to an external server (linux also) to display the shares of that external server.
So the bridge server shows the share available on the external server and the users just do a \\bridgeserver\ and they can see all the server.
Now I would like to eol that bridge server and have it replace by a Windows server and it needs to perform that same fonction. How can I do that?
I know that Windows 2008 has a NFS add-on but I am not sure it can acted as a bridge. It more looks like it allow you to create local share that Linux users can see and use using Linux permission.
tx!
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This external server restrict access to it by ip addresss. Right now, only this Linux gateway server has access to it.
DFS don't work as a gateway, it just connects a client to the destination, like peer-to-peer, so clients won't be able to connect to the external server. They need to be "proxied". That is why I started looking at the NFS add-on for Windows 2008.
DFS don't work as a gateway, it just connects a client to the destination, like peer-to-peer, so clients won't be able to connect to the external server. They need to be "proxied". That is why I started looking at the NFS add-on for Windows 2008.
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I know about DFS we have been using it since 2000 but does it work with Linux server. In both of your links the word Linux, Unix or NFS are not listed.
Do you say say Windows DFS is able to transparently map to Linux shares just like it would on Windows shares.