NFS mount on windows 7

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Hi,

There is no external setting available on VNXe to mount a NFS share on windows machine. I believe below articles from Microsoft would be able to help you.

Administering Client for NFS

Starting Client for NFS

Mounting an NFS shared resource to a drive letter

Regards,

Swapnil.

Hey,

As Swapnil said there is no external setting available on VNXe to mount a NFS share on windows machine.

You may need to use some third-party tools to meet your need.

Hope this can help to you.

Actually this will only work for windows 7 enterprise or ultimate, windows 7 does not natively allow nfs mounting.
Thanks for the help though.

The Client for NFS is included in the Windows 7, however, it is turned off by default. One can turn it on by accessControl Panel → Programs → Programs and Features → Turn Windows features on or off.

I have found an un-documented trick to set the "default" anonymous UID and GID for Client for NFS to access a NFS share. Now, you can do it as follows:

1. Open the Run box by pressing Windows + R.

2. Start Registry Editor by running command regedit. Remember to click the Yes button on the User Account Control window.

3. Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ClientForNFS\CurrentVersion\Default.

4. Add two DWORD values: AnonymousUid and AnonymousGid.

5. Set theses values to the UID and GID on the Ubuntu box. In the most popular cases, they are 1000 and1000 in decimal base. Actually, it should be the UID and GID of the owner of the shared directory on the Ubuntu system.

6. Restart your Client for NFS service or restart your computer.

Example

On the Ubuntu, I want to share the home directory of the user cuongnv /home/cuongnv. The owner UID iscuongnv (1000), and the owner GID is also cuongnv (1000). I assume that you know how to install NFS service on the Ubuntu (actually, you only need to install two package: portmap and nfs-kernel-server). My Ubuntu box's IP is192.168.0.10, and I want to share above directory to all the computers in my network 192.168.0.0/24.

Now, on the Ubuntu box, you add the following line to the file /etc/exports:

/home/cuongnv    system ip address/24(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)

Then, you need to run command exports -ra. Final, restart portmap service and nfs-kernel-server service.

1.

Open Computer (or press Windows + E).

2. Click the Map netwok drive button on the toolbar.

3. Enter system I address:/home/cuongnv on the Folder text box.

4. Click Finish.

Hi,

In this path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ClientForNFS\CurrentVersion\Default

I am not able to find ClientForNFS\CurrentVersion\Default

Hi,

Thanks for your question about the VNX. What OS version are you on? Since this is a 6 year old thread Windows 7 is end of life now. Is the feature added from programs and features in the OS.