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September 19th, 2012 07:00
VNXe with Windows Services for UNIX
I have a VNXe 3100 with NFS enabled. I have a standard NFS share created (not VMFS volume). I have addedd a VMware host to the VNXe and mounted the NFS share to the VMware host. I can read and write just fine. Now, I have a Windows 2003 server with Services for Unix installed. I can map and connect to the NFS share, but I cannot write data to the share. Access Denied. The VNXe also has CIFS shares enabled and is pointing to a AD domain that is different than the AD domain that the Windows 2003 server is a member of. There is no trust between those domains either, and there cannot be a trust, either.
I have tried every username/password combination I have with no success. How can I allow access and read/write to the Windows 2003 server to the NFS share? I also wanted to add that we don't have a NIS server to utilize.
Thanks!
Mark
tgraves1
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September 25th, 2012 08:00
Hi Mark.
NFS access by default to the root of an NFS Shared Folder (or in your case an VMware NFS Datastore) is restricted to read-only to all but the root user.
The user you are connecting as using Unix for Windows is likely not the root user ID. So you'll need to connect to the NFS Share using a Linux box as root and set the permissions on the root of the directory to 777 for everyone if you are comfortable with opening up full access. You could also create a directory in the root and set the owner of that directory to whatever UID you are using from Windows and grant 777 to owner.
VMware always comes in as root so it will have access to everything by default.
Hope that helps.
Tyler
pmsoutherland
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September 25th, 2012 11:00
Thanks, Tyler. Implemented 777 for now. Will implement matching usernames between hosts and allow access to that user.
Thanks.