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

[Jim Kinney]

Ah. So use cifs.
On Aug 25, 2014 10:51 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at dsservices.com> wrote:

> Just to re-iterate:
> The shares are being done by NAS dedupe appliances and I'm trying to mount
> the shares on the Windows 2008 R2 system.  (i.e. the Windows system is the
> client mounting the shares not the server exporting them).
>
> There is no control over the NAS appliances other than to create shares as
> either NFS or CIFS so iSCSI is not an option.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Justin Goldberg
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 9:51 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Automatic and Persistent share mount on Windows 2008 R2?
>
> 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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