Re: [Condor-users] How to add a Windows XP machine to an existing poolwith NFS?

["Peter Troeger" <peter.troeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> So far a I have a Condor pool set up with all Linux nodes, and they all 
> communicate through a NFS server. I would like to start adding Windows XP 
> machines to my pool but am pretty clueless to anything Windows does. Can 
> anyone please give me a idea of how to do this?

If you want your Windows machines to communicate with the NFS server,
you should use "Windows Services for Unix 3.5" (SFU), which is free for
download. The package contains a NFS Client for Windows, which allows
you to access NFS shares as Windows network drive. This demands a
mapping from Windows user name to Unix UID/GID, which is handled by a
central SFU server application. Start reading here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324055&sd=tech
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324073/EN-US/

It might be easier to use Samba on your NFS server, in order to provide
Windows network shares for the NFS exports.

> So far I've been searching around and Windows provides a "Services for Unix" 
> type of package however I'm not exactly sure which services I need to run if 
> my pool will hopefully in the end be running MPI applications.

Using MPI in a heterogeneous environment demands an according MPI
package.  I only know LAM/MPI and MP-MPICH for being able to do this,
but there might be more.

Regards,
Peter.