Many thanks to all who took the time to reply:
Tim Carlson <tim@santafe.edu>
Thomas A. Plesha <tplesha@nslcpacific.navy.mil>
Larry Williamson <larry@mitra.com>
Farzod Mansour <zod@netcom.com>
Tim Iskander <ISKANDER@infimed.com>
Dan Penrod <penrod@wcnewmedia.com>
Fedor Gnuchev <qwe@ht.eimb.rssi.ru>
Bertrand Hutin <hb@o2tech.fr>
Marc S. Gibian <gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil>
Michael Baumann <baumann@proton.llumc.edu>
SUMMARY:
1.) Samba was the unanimous choice for providing an NT
Server access to disk space on Sun workstations.
2.) Only one other manager indicated disappointment with
Sun for dropping support for Wabi.
3.) Other Window Application support options mentioned:
SunPC, SoftWindows, and TotalNet from Syntax.
4.) Other Disk Mounting options mentioned:
Hummingbird NFS.
5.) Special thanks to Michael Baumann for the Samba tip:
"Make sure that you use user level authentication
or it will only open 1 tcp connection for all mounts..
owned by whoever grabbed it first."
ORIGINAL POST:
> I understand that Sun plans to drop support for Wabi,
> and that work on Wabi 3.0 [with support for Windows 95]
> has been terminated. [kind of feels like the Solaris "C"
> compiler issue - doesn't it!].
>
> So I tested Insignia's NTrigue. It works ok. For the
> record, I like Wabi better, but we do not need 100% PC
> compatibility. We just use new versions of well behaved
> Windows Applications - and they work great under Wabi!
>
> My question is - what is the best way to give the NT
> server access to the existing data on my Sun workstations?
> NT/NFS, PCNFS, Samba?
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