Hello,
I am attempting to mount an NFS share on a Windows machine. As I understand it, Win2k8 supports NFS. Based on a post from 2008, it seems I somehow need to map a user to root, howerver, it does not appear that the username mapping service is supported anylonger. I followed the instructions in this post "NFS Mounts with Windows hosts" however, I'm not sure the instructions "Services for NFS Step-by-Step Guide for Windows Server 2008" apply as it seems to want an entirely different NFS client to be installed, also in step 4 of the section "Configuration for Anonymous NFS access:" the policy "access: Let Everyone permissions apply to anonymous users." does not exist, so I'm unable to follow these instructions. This article indicates you can configure user mapping, if your NFS server is connected to AD (it is not and we do not have any plans to hook our NetApp device up to AD). The Windows server is connected to our AD infrastructure.
I have exported the share to the full /24.
I do know that the share is active and mountable from a linux server:
[root@foobar ~]# mount
10.0.70.240:/netappshare on /netappshare type nfs (rw,addr=10.0.70.240)
[root@showmount ~]# showmount -e 10.0.70.240
Export list for 10.0.70.240:
/ (everyone)
(interestingly, showmount doesn't show any exports... but it does mount so I'm not sure if that means anything...)
However, when I attempt to mount the same share on my windows server, I get the everhelpful "network path was not found":
C:\Users\domainadmin>showmount -e 10.0.70.240
Exports list on 10.0.70.240:
/ All Machines
C:\Users\domainadmin>mount 10.0.70.240:/netappshare *
Network Error - 53
Type 'NET HELPMSG 53' for more information.
C:\Users\domainadmin>net helpmsg 53
The network path was not found.
I'm sure it's a PEBCK error, but I'm just not sure where to go from here... it seems like mounting an NFS share should be relatively straightforward so I'm probably missing something obvious.
I'd appreciate any ideas as I'm stumped.
Thanks,
-J