a late reply... On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 11:07:44AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 07:59:10AM -0800, R Lists06 wrote: > > and... is or can NFS be a compatible yet better replacement for Samba? > > It's not compatibile with Samba. It is, however, a better networked > filesystem for Unix. hummingbird makes an nfsv4 client for windows (and in fact they were a big part of the nfsv4 standards process) - but it's not cheap. danno -- Dan Pritts, System Administrator Internet2 office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-7224