[ale] Automatic and Persistent share mount on Windows 2008 R2?

[Jim Kinney]

NFS serving from Windows is sort of like a daily enema with broken glass
and rubbing alcohol.
Their service is 32-bit so the number of files is limited. But the best
part is all the file metadata is in the registry and not in the
inodes/blocks.

The client for windows NFS is better but still very much a redheaded
stepchild. Filezilla is better.
On Aug 23, 2014 9:50 PM, "Phil Turmel" <philip at turmel.org> wrote:

> On 08/22/2014 05:29 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>
> > We need to try to mount to a Windows 2008 R2 server.   Today I got as
> > far as being able to login to the Windows server and map the share to
> > a drive letter then verify I could read and write from it.
> >
> > The issue is that CIFS mount:
> >
> > a)      Is only available to the user I logged in as when I did the
> > map on the Windows side.   (This was also true when I had the Windows
> > Admin do it using the domain administrative account.)
> >
> > b)      Is not available to the services that were already started
> > automatically at boot.   It is these services that will be writing to
> > and reading from the drive.
> >
> > So my question is how can I setup an automatic mount of a share in
> > Windows at boot AND insure that services started will have access to
> > read and write to it?
>
> I ran into this some years ago...  If I recall correctly, you can't.  At
> least, not for the LOCALSYSTEM account that services are typically
> installed as.  That account doesn't have network access.
>
> If you run the service under a specific user, the service will have
> network access, but only with "\\server\sharename" path syntax, and only
> if you've arranged some form of automatic authentication for that user
> on the target (domain membership, sync'ed passwords, etc).
>
> > We did in fact try to enable NFS Services on the Windows server today
> > but for whatever reason it puked on doing that each time and forced a
> > reboot.    If someone knows how to enable that on Windows 2008 R2 as
> > well as how to make a mount there persistent (similar to the way it
> > would be if in fstab on UNIX/Linux) I’d be happy to go that route
> > instead.
>
> Never tried NFS on Windows.  Just the idea makes me queasy.  Sorry.
>
> > Please don’t point me at links that “might address” this if you
> > haven’t already tried them and know they work.  After working most of
> > the week on this I’ve not found anything that really solves it in
> > many web searches.
>
> I'm not linking anything, as I don't know of any solutions that meet
> your criteria.  Hope you can use the work-around.
>
> Phil
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