Perform identity mapping in Active Directory (AD). Here are three methods you can use to perform the identity mapping and mount the NFS export. With this UID/GID mapping, the Unix server will be able to determine which user created the request for the NFS export. Therefore, in order to authenticate to a Unix server providing NFS exports, we need to map Windows users to Unix UIDs and GIDs. In Windows, users and groups are identified using security identifiers (SIDs). However, Unix and Windows use different mechanisms for identifying users and groups: In Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, users and groups are identified by user identifiers (UIDs) and group identifiers (GIDs), respectively. Now we need to mount NFS exports from a Unix server. The PowerShell command to use depends on your client environment:įor Windows 10: Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -FeatureName ServicesForNFS-ClientOnly, ClientForNFS-Infrastructure -Online -NoRestartįor Windows Server: Install-WindowsFeature NFS-Client Mount the NFS share (export). How to Configure Windows as an NFS Client Prerequisite: Enable the necessary Windows features.īefore we mount an NFS share on a Windows client, we need to enable certain features within Windows to perform NFS client operations. Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft’s NFS documentation lists the following operating system support: Operating Systems However, this changed when Microsoft implemented NFS client and server tools. Unfortunately, NFS traditionally did not play well with environments that mix Windows with Unix: To enable Windows client access to NFS exports, each NFS export needed a Samba share equivalent (an SMB implementation for Unix). ![]() While you’re likely to be familiar with accessing network file shares via Server Message Block (SMB) or the Windows implementation of SMB (CIFS), NFS is still prevalent in production environments with Unix servers. Step 7- Mounting the volume to a drive via command line (CMD) mount \\12.0.1.How NSF works with Windows operating systems Step 6 – Map Network drive via Windows Explorer – Second attempt If you want a users to be able to only Read and Write you should use chmod 775 command. Meaning they can mount the volume and have the ability to delete/create files/folders. To change this we need to use the following command on the Linux instance sudo chmod 777 volume-test Step 5 – Provide the correct rights on the right level This is broken down in User level (directory, read, write, execute), Group level (read,write and execute) and other (no file permissions) On the folder/directory level you see we have no rights on the “- – -“. Let’s go back to the Linux instance and check what the file permissions are on the mounted volume for the volume-test folder ls -hal This will not work because we don’t have the right privileges on the volume to execute this. ![]() In this case : 12.0.1.4 Step 3 – Mount your file system using the command/s below sudo mount -t nfs -o rw,hard,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,vers=3,tcp 12.0.1.4:/volume-test volume-test Step 4 – Map Network Drive in Explorer – First attempt So i wanted to test this on our lab environment on Azure and take you through this step by step.Īssumption is that there is already a Capacity pool (regardless of the tier) and a volume with a name.įor this blog i created “verron01” as volume name and a folder called “volume-verron”Īlso you want to make sure that your Windows OS has a client for NFS installed Step 1 – Mounting your FileSystemĬreate a new directory on your Azure instance, in this case via a Linux Server: sudo mkdir volume-test Folder/directory has been created Step 2 – Select the mount target IP address Because a customer of mine was struggling to mount their ANF volume to an NFS client running on a Windows OS via the explorer and via the command prompt ![]() By default Windows doesn’t allow you to mount an NFS based volume through explorer on a Windows client.
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