Customize Solstice NFS Client 3.1

Before restarting your system, lets check the configuration:
In the "Control-Panel", select the Network-applet:

Windows95	Windows NT4

In addition for the "NFS Client", Solstice "File and Printer Sharing" and "NIS Naming Services" have been installed. For a basic connection, I suggest to delete these. IMPORTANT: Change the "Primary Network Logon" to "Solstice NFS Client"	If you do require only connection FROM the Windows PC to the UNIX server, I suggest to delete the "Solstice File Sharing" and also the "Solstice NIS Name Service"

Lets check now the "Properties" of the "Solstice NFS Client":
There is no "golden rule" on how to configure the "NFS-Client", it depends on the
system configuration and the software/application used on the network, so I am
listing here the configuration values, as they work fine for me.

1)	Most PC-software in a multi-system environment requires the use of "File Locking/Sharing", which is build-in to Microsoft Clients/networking, but need to be configured separately with UNIX Clients. When you work mostly with small files, you get increase the performance by reducing the size of the Data Transfer.
2)	When new files are created on a UNIX system, the UNIX-filesystem requires to define the "Access Permissions". By default, the user itself can: - Read, Write, Execute All other users can only Read and Execute, which can be changed here also to include the Write-permission. If you have an "Authentication" server, define its IP-address.
3)	This setup depends on your application: If only you work with the data files, you can gain some performance using the "Attribute cache" and "Data cache". However, when MULTIPLE users work SIMULTANEOUSLY with Database-type files, I suggest to DEACTIVATE ALL CACHING ( to avoid data inconsistencies/corruption's). ( for details: Network Client-Cache)
4)	The default for "NFS Retransmissions" is 5 retries, which may not be sufficient for a busy server. It is highly suggest to increase "Retries" to 10 or even 20.
5)	I suggest to select "Lowercase" as "Preferred Case" and to activate (put a check-mark on) "Create file names in preferred case"
6)	I did not find any reason to change anything on this page.