ProNFS is a non complicated product for integrating the Microsoft Windows and TCP/IP network environments. ProNFS is an inexpensive but effective way to transform a standard PC running under MS Windows 2000/2003/XP/VISTA into a multi-function terminal. Being based on the TCP/IP open standards, the package integrates a PC into an interoperable computer network. The network of dissimilar computers and operating systems becomes perfectly transparent to you. ProNFS enables on your PC's screen to work at once with several applications executed simultaneously on various network nodes. As a result, a heterogeneous network appears to you as a unified large computer system arranged directly on your desktop.
ProNFS has both the NFS Client and Server bundled into its program.
The NFS Client
The NFS Client is a program running under the MS Windows operating system in order to mount one or more shared network resources from one or more NFS Servers and to share access to files and directories with other PCs and UNIX users across a network.
A shared network resource is any folder that the administrator makes available to be mounted and its subdirectories. The process of making such resources available is called exporting a shared network resource. On the NFS client side, a shared network resource is seen as a physical disk drive.
The NFS Client does not turn your PC into a fully qualified file server. Instead, it allows simple access to folders and files for a limited number of systems on the network.
The NFS Client has a multi-threaded code developed for the Win32 environment and is designed to work with the built-in MS Windows TCP/IP-32 protocol stack.
The NFS-Client supports the NFS protocol version 3 and the NFS protocol version 2 via UDP and TCP/IP.
The NFS Client can be installed on any MS Windows 2000/2003/XP/VISTA workstation to enable your workstation to benefit from networks NFS-Server services. With the help of the NFS Client, you can mount disks and folders
