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

[Justin Goldberg]

Another option is installing the Windows builtin iSCSI target and mounting
it from Linux, then have the Linux machine, acting as the frontend, share
out the box on the network. iSCSI is a one-to-one protocol and is
block-level, one machine to another, mounting the drive on a lower level
than SMB. It would obviate the need to mess around with Windows
authentication, or at least that's my hope. Perhaps it would work better if
the Windows server is in workgroup mode.

- Justin

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at dsservices.com>
wrote:

> I have two data deduplication devices that do NAS style shares.   They can
> do NFS or CIFS (or both at same time using different shares).     The NFS
> shares have been there for quite some time and I successfully mount those
> to various HP-UX and Linux servers with no issue.
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
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