Dear All:
Happy Holidays, wherever you might be and however you might celebrate this
time of year.
This might be "Old News" to many of you, but I just discovered a very useful
feature that makes Windows Vista quite useful in Solaris/LINUX/UNIX
environment. Vista Enterprise includes support for mounting UNIX/NFS
shares, including support for Case Sensitive file lookup on the NFS mounts.
Recently, I wanted to setup additional workstations that could run
Windows-based software, such as Nuts, MestReNova, and ACD-Labs software;
however, all of our centrally stored data is located on NFS-shared
filesystems. It was very simple to setup NFS mounts in Vista Enterprise,
and with Shortcuts/Links on the Desktop, the "mount" command never needs to
be repeated once the NFS filesystem is mounted as a logical Drive.
Having very limited space in my lab, I wanted to add PC/Windows
workstations, but I didn't want to take away my Sun/Solaris workstations
that are running VNMR. It turns out that the new Dells running Vista have
no problem using the Sun USB keyboards, so I purchased simple KVM switches,
and now my users can simply press a "hot-key", and switch back and forth
between the Sun/Solaris and PC/Windows machines. So, now I have two
workstations that double as Sun/Solaris and PC/Vista, both of which have
direct access to all NMR data via NFS shares. The users are loving it.
I apologize if this is so simple and obvious that it's not worth sharing;
however, it has really improved the usefulness of our data processing
resources.
Best regards to all,
-Rich Shoemaker
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Richard K. Shoemaker, Ph.D., Director, NMR Spectroscopy Facility
University of Colorado at Boulder
Phone: (303) 492-7062 Fax: (303) 492-5894
E-Mail: Richard.Shoemaker_at_Colorado.edu
Received on Tue Dec 23 2008 - 06:28:03 MST