Services for UNIX - Interoperability : Windows Server 2008

Managing Client Groups - An Easier Approach

Ashish — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:43:00 GMT

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)

Using DFS for Centralized Access to Multiple NFS Servers

Ashish — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:28:00 GMT

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)

Getting AD Lookup to work without UNIX Attributes tab

Ashish — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:03:00 GMT

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)

Using UNIX Attributes tab without installing IdMU

Ashish — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:11:00 GMT

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 comes...(read more)

AD Lookup with ADAM/ADLDS

Ashish — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:17:00 GMT

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)

Removal of technology: Services for Macintosh (SFM)

Ashish — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:22:00 GMT

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,...(read more)

Limitation with Active Directory Lookup feature in Microsoft Services for NFS

Ashish — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:25:00 GMT

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

Ashish — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:03:00 GMT

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)