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Using DFS for Centralized Access to Multiple NFS Servers
11 September 09 12:28 PM | Ashish | 0 Comments   
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 the problem Read More...
AD Lookup with ADAM/ADLDS
10 July 09 11:17 PM | Ashish | 0 Comments   
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 Read More...
Can I Set Up User Name Mapping in Windows Vista?
27 March 09 09:01 PM | Ashish | 1 Comments   
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. Read More...
NFS and SUA in Windows 7
23 January 09 07:48 PM | Ashish | 16 Comments   
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 thing Read More...
Limitation with Active Directory Lookup feature in Microsoft Services for NFS
15 December 08 10:25 PM | Ashish | 0 Comments   
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 own Read More...
Set up Services for Network File System in Windows Server 2008
15 December 08 10:03 PM | Ashish | 4 Comments   
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. In Windows Read More...
All (well, almost) about Client for NFS - Configuration and Performance
14 April 08 06:42 AM | Ashish | 4 Comments   
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 Windows Read More...
"Network Error 53", "The data area passed to a system call is too small" or "Unknown Error"
05 June 07 12:51 AM | Ashish | 11 Comments   
"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 Read More...
How User Name Mapping works?
11 May 07 09:28 PM | Ashish | 8 Comments   
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 Read More...
UNIX Interoperability and Windows Vista
01 May 07 05:44 PM | Ashish | 10 Comments   
UNIX Interoperability and Windows Vista There was SFU 3.5 Interoperability components. It got ported to Windows Server 2003 R2. And now we have similar interop components packaged with Windows Vista too. Windows Vista Ultimate and Enterprise editions Read More...

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