[fullsun]

You have to use SMB shares.

I was starting to suspect something like that because the nfs shares are extremely slow on windows, they work superbly on my Arch Linux installation. But why are samba shares required over nfs which I assume can be tuned to be faster?

I'm trying to share settings between Linux and Windows, is this feasible? Also, can I have the windows machines link samba shares and Linux point to nfs shares if they point to the same folders, ie movies or something, or will the database interpret the sources as different and scrape duplicates of everything - one samba path and one nfs path file?

It is, use SaMBa but the config for working is complex, try this:

[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = (a name...)
server string = Samba Server
;interfaces = (put here the IP/24 of your interface, and remove ";" , facultative)
security = USER
map to guest = Bad User
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast
dns proxy = No
idmap config * : backend = tdb
create mask = 0664
force create mode = 0664
directory mask = 0775
force directory mode = 0775
printing = bsd
printcap name = /dev/null
load printers = no
disable spoolss = yes


[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
browseable = No


[fichier]
comment = repertoire fichier
path = /srv/samba/share
read only = No
create mask = 0775
guest only = Yes
guest ok = Yes

gl