How I did it
INSTALLING NFS
http://technonstop.com/tutorial-setup-nfs-server-windows
Followed the instructions from several websites.
1) Firstly, Grab the "Services for unix for windows" from : http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=274
2) Do a custom install, selecting only
- NFS -> Server for NFS
- Authentication tools for NFS -> User Name Mapping
- Authentication tools for NFS -> User Name Server for NFS
authentication
3) During install select the behaviour to Case Sensitive
4) Next, select Local User Mapping Server -> Password and group files
-- My addition
The next stage asks you to upload passwd and group files, I simply created 2 files on the XP desktop. From this post : http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showthread.php?tid=1434&pid=460253#pid460253 I modified the passwd/group files
passwd
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh
pi:x:1000:1000:pi:/home/pi:/bin/sh
group
root:x:0:
pi:x:1000:
to represent the Raspberry pi user.
5) Once the installation was complete, go start -> windows services for unix -> services for unix administration
6) select User Name Mapping on the left, and then the maps option on the right. I didn't select Simple maps, and decided to use advanced maps
Show User Maps
click list windows users and list unix users. from windows select Administrator from unix select pi then click add ignoring the warning about administrator special account
Show Group Maps
click list windows groups and list unix groups. from windows select Administrators from unix select pi then click add
Then apply in the top right.
Setting up shares
1) For each of my shares E:\music and E:\movies i right clicked on the folders in windows explorer, selected sharing and security and then the NFS Sharing tab.
2) Within the tab I created the share names music and movies with an encoding of ANSI, unchecking anonymous access
3) Within the permissions button, i unchecked Allow root access and selected Read/Wite as the type of access
4) Ok'd all this
5) Within /etc/fstab on the raspberry pi (via PuTTy) sudo nano /etc/fstab I added the following lines:
192.168.1.40:/music /home/pi/music nfs defaults,user,auto,noatime,intr 0 0
192.168.1.40:/movies /home/pi/movies nfs defaults,user,auto,noatime,intr 0 0
(obviously after creating the relevant directories within /home/pi)
Firewall setup
Unfortunately the initial firewall port opening specified in the bottom of this post : http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showthread.php?tid=1434&pid=460252#pid460252 didn't appear to work for me, however (shock) microsoft was on hand to offer that perhaps I should try and open some other ports too.
User Name Mapping and Server for NFS Portmapper TCP, UDP 111
Server for NFS Network Status Manager TCP, UDP 1039
Server for NFS Network Lock Manager TCP, UDP 1047
Server for NFS NFS Mount TCP, UDP 1048
Server for NFS Network File System TCP, UDP 2049
(from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753302(v=ws.10).aspx )
DONE!
I added the new mounts as sources in both music and movies, and they appear much much more responsive than samba
