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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...
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...
Configuring User Name Mapping - Part 3 (Advanced Mapping)
24 January 08 11:20 PM | Ashish | 4 Comments   
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 automatically Read More...
Configuring User Name Mapping - Part 2 (Simple Mapping)
02 October 07 03:45 PM | Ashish | 2 Comments   
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 the Read More...
SFU hot fixes in email
07 September 07 12:05 AM | Ashish | 0 Comments   
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 it, Read More...
Update: Windows Server 2003 SP2 breaks SFU
11 July 07 03:05 PM | Ashish | 1 Comments   
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 released Read More...
Configuring User Name Mapping - Part 1
06 June 07 12:02 AM | Ashish | 10 Comments   
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 work. 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...
Windows Server 2003 SP2 breaks SFU
27 April 07 06:03 PM | Ashish | 2 Comments   
Windows Server 2003 SP2 breaks SFU We have already seen too many people reporting this - Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 installation breaks two functionalities in Services for UNIX 3.5 installations - Interix subsystem and Password Synchronization. Read More...
Set up Server for NFS in Windows Server 2003 R2
19 April 07 05:30 PM | Ashish | 11 Comments   
Set up Server for NFS in Windows Server 2003 R2 In this post, I will talk about configuring Microsoft Services for Network File System, mainly Server for NFS and User Name Mapping , in Windows Server 2003 R2. You can follow the same steps for Services Read More...
Using chown/chgrp from UNIX clients
19 April 07 02:51 PM | Ashish | 0 Comments   
Using chown/chgrp from UNIX clients Why it is still owned by 4294967294? Haven’t I mapped root user to Administrator user? Well, you might recall – in Windows world a file or directory can be owned by a user or a group. Since default owner happens to Read More...
Configuring User Name Mapping
19 April 07 02:33 PM | Ashish | 7 Comments   
Configuring User Name Mapping We can now mount the share on the Linux client and can also create files. Next thing we should do is to configure User Name Mapping and see it in action. So let’s go back to our Windows system. I have created few local users Read More...
Who's 4294967294?
19 April 07 02:32 PM | Ashish | 1 Comments   
Who's 4294967294? Why is /mnt/nfs owned by something like 4294967294 and why is the group set to the same? Why there are no permissions for anyone except the owner on the nfs directory? I am root on the Linux client so why is myfile owned (again) by 4294967294? Read More...
Mounting NFS share on NFS client
19 April 07 02:30 PM | Ashish | 20 Comments   
Mounting NFS share on NFS client Now click on OK twice and come out of the folder properties saving the changes you've made, open a command prompt and run – showmount –e. This should return the exports list for this system and should list the folder you Read More...
Sharing folders over NFS
19 April 07 02:28 PM | Ashish | 3 Comments   
Sharing folders over NFS It’s easy – right click on the folder you to share and go to properties on this folder. You should now be able see a new tab called “ NFS Sharing ”. Here’s how it looks like – Remember that we have not yet set up User Name Mapping Read More...
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