The timestamp gets modified to the current system date, while the files are copied from local drive to mounted NFS drive. File timestamp could be important for auditing purpose, running backup tools or for other reasons. The effected Windows O/S are: Windows 2003, SFU 3.5 , Client for NFS ...

As discussed on my earlier Blog post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/sfu/archive/2011/05/25/scripts-to-populate-the-unix-attributes-when-migrating-from-sfu-3-5-to-rfc-2307-schema.aspx , So after running both the script as dicussed on the above blog, you would be able to populate the User's unix attribute...

We recently got a case where customer was trying to access NFS share hosted on Unix machine from Windows 2008. Issue was isolated to this windows 2008 client only. We tried accessing the share from Windows client with the following options: · Mount command returns Network error ‘5’ · ‘net use...

RSH and RCP on Windows 2008 You may face issues while using RSH and RCP in Windows 2008. Analyzing the network trace will reveal that RSH has trim down the username while sending the query. As a result the RSH authentication fails. One workaround to this issue is to download Services for Unix 3.5...