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Managing Client Groups - An Easier Approach
12 November 09 04:43 PM | Ashish | 0 Comments   
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 Read More...
Getting AD Lookup to work without UNIX Attributes tab
16 July 09 06:03 PM | Ashish | 0 Comments   
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 be 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...
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...
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...
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...
Introduction and installation of Services for NFS on R2
19 April 07 02:20 PM | Ashish | 2 Comments   
Introduction and installation of Services for NFS on R2 Following is what makes up Microsoft Services for Network File System under Other Network File and Print Services in your familiar Add/Remove Windows component Wizard – Client for NFS enables Windows Read More...
GID on NTFS File System
16 April 07 09:36 PM | Ashish | 1 Comments   
GID on NTFS File System Can you set group on a file or folder on NTFS file system? - No, ugh... Yes. This question puzzled me for a long time but since it never really made it to my top priorities, I didn't look up for information on this. I thought of Read More...
Active Directory Lookup? Or, User Name Mapping? Or Both?
13 April 07 08:54 PM | Ashish | 11 Comments   
Active Directory Lookup? Or, User Name Mapping? Or Both? User Name Mapping in Windows Server 2003 R2 and Services for UNIX allows you map UNIX user and group accounts to their Windows counterparts (both local and domain accounts). This service is used Read More...

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