Services for UNIX - Interoperability

Client for NFS in Windows 8 Now that it's been RTM'ed - it's time you should know what's new with NFS components in Windows 8 and I would like to start with Client for NFS. While there are significant changes with respect to Server for NFS component...

SUACommunity.com Closure Last week, I was equally surprised when I received the word that SUACommunity.com is not getting the funds to continue functioning. This portal and Rodney have been the greatest assets SUA have had so far. While I would have...

Proof of Concept: NFS Attributes Editor We come across a lot of people who have IdMU tools installed even though they don't use the NIS authentication. This, primarily, happens because they have NFS in their environment and with Windows Vista and later...

Using Kerberos Authentication for Server for NFS It has always been attributed that the NFS communication is inherently insecure and that's completely true. There are certain security options but they aren't enough to protect the data from unauthorized...

Synchronizing SFU Attributes with RFC2307 Attributes In a very short span of time, I received multiple requests for a script that can sync the values from SFU attributes to RFC2307 attributes. This isn't a new request but it pretty much pointed out...

SUA SDK for Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 The news is not new and you may already be aware that the SUA Utilities and SDK pacakge for Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 is released after a really long time. Just for the convenience, you can download...

Managing Client Groups - An Easier Approach On UNIX-based NFS servers, it's much easier to control access to the NFS shares based on host names or IP addresses. You just have to put them in the export file and it's done. It's not so difficult in Windows...

Using DFS for Centralized Access to Multiple NFS Servers Lately, we have seen customers who are trying to utilize DFS to publish NFS shares from a single DFS server to centralize the access for the clients. This has several benefits. It removes...

Getting AD Lookup to work without UNIX Attributes tab The previous post talks about how to get the UNIX Attributes tab to work without installing IdMU components. In this post, I would like to talk about what attributes the NFS components expect to...

Using UNIX Attributes tab without installing IdMU Starting with the Windows Server 2003 R2 release, Microsoft has made it clear that the AD Lookup feature would be the preferred direction to go for identity mapping between Windows and *nix when it...

AD Lookup with ADAM/ADLDS With removal of UNM in Vista/W2K8, it became really problematic to map users in non-AD environments to use with Vista/LH NFS Servers and Clients. For client, a workaround was discovered which was essentially a registry tweak...

Removal of technology: Services for Macintosh (SFM) This seems a little strange and SFM is being talked about on this blog. Well, SFM is one of the technologies that we support along with UNIX Interoperability components like NFS, NIS and SUA. Anyways...

Windows 7 SUA SDK A lot of people have been enquiring about the Windows 7 SUA SDK. There is a lot of anticipation since Windows 7 has already raised the bar on the other fronts and now people have high expectations for SUA SDK that would be released...

Can I Set Up User Name Mapping in Windows Vista? Unfortunately, no if you don't have a SFU 3.5 or W2K3 R2 machines on the network that is running User Name Mapping service. This has been a major disappointment with NFS deployments using Windows Vista...

NFS and SUA in Windows 7 Finally, the Windows 7 beta is released to the public and we can now experience it ourselves. The PSS people in Microsoft are always excited to try their hands on the latest betas and Windows 7 is not an exception. The first...

Limitation with Active Directory Lookup feature in Microsoft Services for NFS The Active Directory Lookup feature that was introduced with Windows Server 2003 R2. This feature greatly simplifies the UNIX identity information management but has its...

Set up Services for Network File System in Windows Server 2008 The Microsoft Services for NFS continues to be the part of the operating system in Windows Server 2008 and seems we will see more improvements when Windows Server 2008 R2 is released. ...

All (well, almost) about Client for NFS - Configuration and Performance I was looking at the referrals this blog gets and I noticed that a lot of times people look for information on Client for NFS in Services for UNIX, Windows Server 2003 R2 or in...

Configuring User Name Mapping - Part 3 (Advanced Mapping) Simply said - when you map users and groups manually with their UNIX counterparts, it's called Advanced Mapping. From the last post on User Name Mapping, you may be aware that Simple Mapping...

Configuring User Name Mapping - Part 2 (Simple Mapping) Continuing the discussion from Configuring User Name Mapping - Part 1 - I will explain how to get Simple Mappings done in this post. To rephrase, User Name Mapping (UNM) bridges the gap between...

SFU hot fixes in email Like any other Microsoft hot fix, you can also receive SFU hot fixes in your inbox - http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6294451 All you need is the KB article number which describes the fix you need. While we are talking about...

This post discussed about a problem with SFU 3.5 Interix and Password Synchronization components which break when you install Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2. It also lists steps to fix it manually using files from another hot fix. Microsoft has...

Configuring User Name Mapping - Part 1 On this page , I have put some information about how you can configure User Name Mapping. It doesn't have the complete step-by-step kind of touch to it since that article was all about getting Server for NFS to...

"Network Error 53", "The data area passed to a system call is too small" or "Unknown Error" Client for NFS included with Windows Server 2003 R2 returns different errors when trying to access NFS shares on UNIX-based NFS servers. The exact error message...

How User Name Mapping works? User Name Mapping is the core NFS authentication component in Services for UNIX, Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows Vista. It bridges the gap presented by difference in user identification methods used by Windows and UNIX...