There was an issue in Windows 2008 R2, where the Unix clients were unable to honor the NTFS style of permission even though the “KeepInheritance” registry key was turned on the NFS server. The NFS server was still using the Unix style of permission...

Recently we got a case where customer was trying to do a backup of a NFS share using Symantec. He was trying on Windows 2008 R2 and was running into issues. However, it worked in Windows 2003 SP2 + SFU 3.5 Gateway environment. In W2K3, we had a product...

We had a scenario where the customer was looking for a option to run the nismap command on a DC using non admin credentials to populate entries in the auto_home NIS map. Hence to run the nismap add command we tried delegating full control to the non...

Recently, we got a case where the customer wanted to programmatically access NFS share using Windows API. We have an API “WNetAddConnection2” which can be used programmatically for accessing NFS share. So we tested and wrote a code for...

Recently we got a case where customer informed that intermittently he is getting access denied error from the Unix clients. This happens while the users from Unix clients are trying to list the content inside the NFS share or read\write into a file. ...

Recently we got an issue where the Users from Unix clients were getting permission denied while trying to run the chown the command. The users were getting the error even if they were owner for the files. The environment was: Windows 2008 R2...

I came across a scenario where mount command was failing when we put it across the Cluster IP / Cluster Name that the Windows NFS share was part of. The same command worked perfectly against the actual IP / Name of the Windows NFS share (active Node)...

Most of the domain controllers running on Windows 2003 and serving purpose of Server for NIS for *NIX systems are getting upgraded to Windows 2008 R2 these days. This needs some additional steps to be performed as Services for UNIX 3.5 no longer available...