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| About this blog: Computers hate me. They really do. Every time I try to do something unusual like add new hardware, something is guaranteed to go wrong. I decided to start writing about my constant problems so that someone else might benefit from my experiences - or at least laugh at them! |
SFU will refuse to install on XP home, but there's a simple change you can make to fool it. Load up your favourite hex editor (search for "hex editor" if you don't have one), then edit SfuSetup.msi and replace the string "NOT (VersionNT = 501 AND MsiNTSuitePersonal)" with "NOT (VersionNT = 510 AND MsiNTSuitePersonal)" (minus the quotes). In other words, change the string 501 to 510 at that location.
I've been using SFU for several months as an NFS client and it works reasonably well. One time it's guaranteed to start playing up is if I reboot the NFS server; NFS clients are supposed to be able to recover gracefully from such an instance since NFS is stateless, but in this case XP will start pausing for long time periods (a minute or more) any time I want to open a file, view a folder etc. No data is lost, but in order to make the computer useable it has to be rebooted. It's annoying, but rebooting the NFS server is an extremely rare event.
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