https://github.com/winfsp/nfs-win

NFS for Windows
https://github.com/winfsp/nfs-win

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NFS for Windows

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/winfsp/nfs-win
• Owner: winfsp
• License: other
• Created: 2017-03-23T20:06:35.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-01-21T21:36:14.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-03T03:35:44.435Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Makefile
• Homepage: https://winfsp.dev
• Size: 27.3 KB
• Stars: 149
• Watchers: 11
• Forks: 23
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: License.txt

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# NFS-Win - NFS for Windows

NFS-Win is a port of Ronnie Sahlberg's [fuse-nfs](https://github.com/sahlberg/fuse-nfs) project to Windows. Under the hood it uses [Cygwin](https://cygwin.com) for the POSIX environment and [WinFsp](https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp) for the FUSE functionality.

NFS-Win requires the latest version of WinFsp to be installed; you can find it here: https://winfsp.dev/rel/. 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.