NFS Server on Windows 2003

[Scarpozzi]

I'm trying to configure Windows Services for UNIX on a 2003 box. I'm needing to get an NFS server up and running and don't want to run it on Linux if I can help it (It would require me to run an additional server just for that due to networking limitations)

So...has anyone done this? I installed the Server for NFS, but cannot connect to it. Setup was easy enough, but I don't have a User Name Mapping server. I didn't setup the User Name Mapping because I just want the NFS share to be anonymous. When I connect to it, I won't have an option to login.

The Help menus aren't telling me anything that I don't already know or have configured. The Linux box I'm using to connect to it isn't giving me anything to work with in the logs for reasons why its failing either. I just need to know if there's an easy to read quick-start guide out there. Thanks...

 

[0roo0roo]

i'm curious as well.

need to share a folder for a WD TV media streamer

folder will be shared with regular windows share as well. but for the wd tv nfs is needed for speed.

 

[MrColin]

I remember trying to set that up once, my conclusion was that windows only pretends to support NFS in any usable way. I've found that Samba-client is superior on the linux side. I wouldn't even use NFS for linux to linux, even though its pretty easy to set up I've found it to be slower and less reliable than samba. Not to go too far astray, ssh and sshfs are the best IMHO. You might think about WinSSHD which is free at the PuTTY website. Its a windows ssh server, I don't know if it supports anonymous use like samba does. You can set it(sshd) up to use saved keys instead of passwords wich is actually more secure anyway.

 

[Nothinman]

NFS mounts don't login, they use the user id of whoever is accessing them at the time. So usually root does the mount on bootup and when joe accesses a file on that mount point his uid and gid are sent over to the server to determine access. That's why you need the user mappings with Windows. On unix its just a matter of keeping your uids and gids in sync across servers.