Accessing NFS Servers

On a Windows 95 or Windows NT system, you can access NFS servers using Network Neighborhood. You can browse for NFS servers on your local subnet, or add NFS servers from outside your local subnet. You can also map a drive letter to an NFS server.

The multiple provider router (MPR) component of Microsoft Windows uses the universal naming convention (UNC) for specifying network resource names, and Solstice NFS Client uses two NFS conventions. Because of this use of multiple conventions, Solstice NFS Client's file-name mapping feature differs in detail from the file-name mapping used by Windows 95 and NT.

Windows 95 and Windows NT use this naming convention:

• Universal Naming Convention (UNC), which uses the syntax \\server\share

The Solstice NFS Client conventions include:

• NFS, which uses the syntax server:/dir1/dir2/dir3...

• Automount, which uses the syntax /automap/autokey/dir1/dir2/dir3...

Solstice NFS Client must convert the NFS and automount formats to UNC format to enable processing by Windows 95 and Windows NT.

You can use UNC everywhere (that is, from the Map Network Drive dialog box, a Windows application, or a DOS box). NFS and automount formats can be used only when mapping a drive from a Map Network Drive dialog box.

On Windows NT, NFS format can also be used when mapping a drive from DOS with the net use command. See "Mapping Network Drives" for more information.