Any shared file system solution under Windows?

Question

Several Windows OSes need to access a shared FS. Notice it that it may be write-intensive on the FS and the FS should look like a local one(ie. C:\SharedFolder).

Any idea?

Thanks!

Answer 1

you can mount network shares as drive letters over SMB. I think XP is slower than Vista and 7, but I'm able to transfer at 40MB/s to a cpu-bound intel atom 330 linux box running samba over gigabit ethernet from my windows 7 box. There may be more sophisticated solutions. Look into iSCSI. Also, there exists commercial software for connecting to NFS shares.

Answer 2

There are many solutions.

First off, you can use SMB shares and "Mount a Network Drive". This is pretty simple to do.

Another solution is Windows Services for NFS or a commercial NFS product. Windows 7 Ultimate can do NFS out of the box.

A third solution is OpenAFS for Windows. This requires much more effort to set up but will easily best the performance and scalability of the other two options.