Recently we go an issue where the “Server for NIS” service was not starting on Windows 2003 R2, x64. The error code as per the vent logs was: Event ID 8194. We referred to the TechNet document http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library...

“nismap.exe” does not create the map name as expected when using the –y parameter. Below is an example of the attempt to use nismap.exe with –y to create the map named auto_home_svr_test: C:\temp>nismap.exe create -i 1 -g...

Consider a scenario where Windows 2012 is hosting shares over NFS v4.1. Adlookup is configured for user and group mapping. RHEL 5.8 is the NFS client which is mounting the NFS shares and then accessing as a mapped user. From the Windows side correct...

Inputs on NFS 4.1 mount: While working on a recent scenario on NFS V4.1, we came across some intresting scenarios for mounting the NFS volumes on the Unix NFS clients. In the implementation of V4.1, there are no particular access requirements to...

This article discuss on the steps required to install IDMU component using DISM on WIndows 2012. You can find more informaiton on DISM on the Blog . Looking for the GUI based installation through role and features may get complex at times. Hence this...

Recently we got an issue where the NFS server ( Windows 2008 R2 was hosting the NFS share) use to bugcheck as soon as the ESX client was mounting the share. We found that the size of the NFS share was approximately 189 GB in size. The share was open...

Recently we got an case where the customer was looking for assistance to run PAX command in Windows 7 SUA. Unlike SFU 3.5, the PAX command in windows 7, SUA does not have "-q" option to suppress error message. Hence it was failing. From the man pages...

We do get a lots of issue where the customer reports that “Permission ere not getting inherited on the newly created files and folder on the NFS client side”. This scenario is intended for the scenario where Windows is the NFS client (running...

While working on a cron job issue, one of the customers wanted to know if they can run the SUA command through a task scheduler instead of cron job. Below are few steps which we can run from the korn/C shell on a system which has subsystem for Unix installed...

While working on one of the case, the customer reported that he was unable to access symbolic link of a NFS share. The symbolic link was pointing to another directory under the same NFS share. The NFS share was hosted on Windows 2008 R2. While checking...

Recently we got an issue where the customer was unable to install NFS role services on Windows 2008 R2. He was getting the error message below. To begin with, we got the output of the command ‘netstat –ano’ to verify if any...

To configure Linux as NIS client to Windows NIS master (Binding Linux as NIS client to Windows 2008 DC, NIS Master) Configuring Linux as NIS client: File that needs to be configure on the Linux side: 1. Edit the # /etc/yp.conf file and put the...

Recently, we were trying to upgrade WIndows 2003 to WIndows 2008. WHile trying to upgrade, we ran into couple of intresting issues. This blogs talks about the issue faces during the upgrade. First issue: So the first thing which we would...

Recently, we had a case where mapping Unix account through ADlookup was not working. Windows 2008 R2 as hosting the NFS share and Windows 2003 R2 was the DC. We performed the steps below: Populated User’s attribute in AD Configured the...

Recently we got an issue reported, where non admin local user were unable to do RSH from member server. Below were our observation based on our testing: As per our testing on lab machines, we found that the issue was coming when we were logged...

Recently we got multiple issues where the SUA performance was getting impacted on multi-processor machines. While the issue is still being diagnosed for the root cause, we were able to get a workaround around this. Some of the common issues were: ...

This blog is in continuation of the blog ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/dsix/archive/2009/04/06/password-synchronization-between-windows-and-unix-part-ii.aspx) where we had discussed on syncing password changes from Unix to Windows. Based on our testing...

Recently we got a case where the explorer window on the Windows NFS client was freezing intermittently and the unfreezing while it trying to access NFS share. The NFS share was hosted on NetApp filer and hence was a multipath. Initially we thought...

Recently we had a case where users from Windows 7, NFS client were unable to access the NFS share. Adlookup was set up properly. And changing the setting to fetch the information from Windows 2003, User name mapping server resolved the issue. Note...

I had discussed on using File Name Translation over NFS here . Some additional information and an alternative steps is captured in this post. To start with the characters that are supported by Windows are here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library...

Recently we got a case where the customer was trying to enable the Unix client to change the ownership of file and folders on a NFS share hosted on a cluster resource. We can achieve this by modifying the below registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE...

The command below can be used on a Korn shell to use the command recall feature using the up arrow on a korn shell. set -o emacs We can use 'history' command to di splays a list of commands numbered in the order in which you have used them...

We do get a lot of questions on multiple users mapping between Windows and Unix users. I have tried to list the questions and the answers for them through this blog: How does multiple user name mapping works <Answer> We can map a Windows...

Recently we got a case where customer reported that he was unable to install the SUA SDk component on Windows 2008 R2. Customers had added the feature “SubSystem for UNIX-based Applications” and then click on the link as displayed on the...

Recently we got a case where customer was unable to run RSH command from Windows RSH client to an AIX RSH server. The error message was “Permission denied”. For RSH client, there is not much of setting that needs to be done on the Windows...