<p dir="ltr">NFS serving from Windows is sort of like a daily enema with broken glass and rubbing alcohol.<br>
Their service is 32-bit so the number of files is limited. But the best part is all the file metadata is in the registry and not in the inodes/blocks.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The client for windows NFS is better but still very much a redheaded stepchild. Filezilla is better.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 23, 2014 9:50 PM, "Phil Turmel" <<a href="mailto:philip@turmel.org">philip@turmel.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 08/22/2014 05:29 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:<br>
<br>
> We need to try to mount to a Windows 2008 R2 server. Today I got as<br>
> far as being able to login to the Windows server and map the share to<br>
> a drive letter then verify I could read and write from it.<br>
><br>
> The issue is that CIFS mount:<br>
><br>
> a) Is only available to the user I logged in as when I did the<br>
> map on the Windows side. (This was also true when I had the Windows<br>
> Admin do it using the domain administrative account.)<br>
><br>
> b) Is not available to the services that were already started<br>
> automatically at boot. It is these services that will be writing to<br>
> and reading from the drive.<br>
><br>
> So my question is how can I setup an automatic mount of a share in<br>
> Windows at boot AND insure that services started will have access to<br>
> read and write to it?<br>
<br>
I ran into this some years ago... If I recall correctly, you can't. At<br>
least, not for the LOCALSYSTEM account that services are typically<br>
installed as. That account doesn't have network access.<br>
<br>
If you run the service under a specific user, the service will have<br>
network access, but only with "\\server\sharename" path syntax, and only<br>
if you've arranged some form of automatic authentication for that user<br>
on the target (domain membership, sync'ed passwords, etc).<br>
<br>
> We did in fact try to enable NFS Services on the Windows server today<br>
> but for whatever reason it puked on doing that each time and forced a<br>
> reboot. If someone knows how to enable that on Windows 2008 R2 as<br>
> well as how to make a mount there persistent (similar to the way it<br>
> would be if in fstab on UNIX/Linux) I’d be happy to go that route<br>
> instead.<br>
<br>
Never tried NFS on Windows. Just the idea makes me queasy. Sorry.<br>
<br>
> Please don’t point me at links that “might address” this if you<br>
> haven’t already tried them and know they work. After working most of<br>
> the week on this I’ve not found anything that really solves it in<br>
> many web searches.<br>
<br>
I'm not linking anything, as I don't know of any solutions that meet<br>
your criteria. Hope you can use the work-around.<br>
<br>
Phil<br>
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