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Instead of driving yourself nuts with NFS on PCs, why not look at Samba? It is open source and free and is a good solution for PC/Unix integration. I have used it before (it is very popular), and it is a nice clean way of accessing Unix servers from PCs. Using this solution, you'll only have to load software on the Unix box, not on any of your PCs. See their url: http://us1.samba.org/samba/samba.html.
They have a nice little description of Samba on their site:
What is Samba?
"The very short answer is that it is the protocol by which a lot of PC-related machines share files and printers and other information such as lists of available files and printers. Operating systems that support this natively include Windows NT, OS/2, and Linux and add on packages that achieve the same thing are available for DOS, Windows, VMS, Unix of all kinds, MVS, and more. Apple Macs and some Web Browsers can speak this protocol as well. Alternatives to SMB include Netware, NFS, Appletalk, Banyan Vines, Decnet etc; many of these have advantages but none are both public specifications and widely implemented in desktop machines by default."
By the way, sounds like a great lab you're putting together, though I would try to dump the Solaris on Intel and get a used SPARC for a couple hundred bucks instead. The future of Solaris on Intel is suspect at best.
Good luck!
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