[COLUG] NFS on Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003

[Brian Miller]

On Wednesday 22 August 2007 8:48:55 am Scott Merrill wrote:
> We actually have three shares we're going to expose: one each for
> faculty, staff, and students.
>
> When viewing a user's details, we click on the "UNIX Attributes" tab
> (made available through the installation of "Server for NIS" on the
> domain controller) and assign them a UID, GID, and shell.  We specify
> /home/{faculty,staff,student}/username as their UNIX home directory.  We
> want all GNU/Linux clients to mount the faculty, staff, and student
> shares inside of /home.

> This is the Microsoft documentation for using their wizard to create an
> NFS share:
> http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/ecb3045e-6d7b-4ce3-9
>e9c-d311d922713a1033.mspx?mfr=true I believe I've done much of this manually
> (setting up user mapping to use Active Directory, for example).  We're not
> interested in quotas or file screens at this time.
>
Having read through the MS documentation, and reviewing your original post, I 
would recommend disabling anonymous mounts.   I have a vague recollection 
from when I was working with Services for UNIX on an XP workstation that 
enabling anonymous mounts prevents authenticated mounts from working (you 
could have one or the other, but not both).  You want authenticated mounts, 
so that user and group permissions are applied.

If that doesn't work, then I would start looking at the pam configuration, to 
make sure I wasn't missing some module that Windows needs in order to fully 
recognize your Linux user as a Windows user.