skyformat99/nfs-win

NFS for Windows

NFS-Win - NFS for Windows

NFS-Win is a port of Ronnie Sahlberg's fuse-nfs project to Windows. Under the hood it uses Cygwin for the POSIX environment and WinFsp for the FUSE functionality.

NFS-Win requires the latest version of WinFsp to be installed; you can find it here: http://www.secfs.net/winfsp/download/. It does not require Cygwin to be installed, all the necessary files are included in the NFS-Win installer.

How to use

Once you have installed WinFsp and NFS-Win you can start an NFS session to a remote computer using the following syntax:

\\nfs\[[locuser=]uid.gid@]host\path

For example, you can map a network drive to nfs://filebucket.local/DataVolume/billziss by using the syntax:

\\nfs\filebucket.local\DataVolume\billziss

By default this will give permissions to all "Authenticated Users" on the new drive and login into the NFS server as the nobody user. If you want to restrict permissions to the user billziss and login as the NFS UID/GID 503/1000 , use this syntax:

\\nfs\[email protected]\DataVolume\billziss

You can use the Windows Explorer "Map Network Drive" functionality or you can use the net use command from the command line.

Project Organization

This is a very simple project:

• fuse-nfs and libnfs are submodules pointing to the original projects by Ronnie Sahlberg.
• nfs-win.c is a simple wrapper around the fuse-nfs program that is used to implement the "Map Network Drive" functionality.
• nfs-win.wxs is a the Wix file that describes the NFS-Win installer.
• patches is a directory with a few simple patches over fuse-nfs and libnfs.
• Makefile drives the overall process of building NFS-Win and packaging it into an MSI.

License

NFS-Win uses the same license as fuse-nfs, which is GPLv3. It interfaces with WinFsp which is GPLv3 with a FLOSS exception.

It also packages the following components:

• Cygwin: LGPLv3
• libnfs: LGPLv2.1+
• fuse-nfs: GPLv3.