Unix has autofs for automounting NFS. I find it wonderful to be able to:
cd /nfs/my.nfsserver.example.org/exporteddir/mydir
and have autofs lookup the DNS name my.nfsserver.example.org, mount exporteddir automatically, and unmount again when the dir is not in use. But this only works on my Unix-machines.
Does an NFS-automounter exist for Windows (7 or 8)? So I can do something similar to:
cd \\nfs\my.nfsserver.example.org\exporteddir\mydir