NFS Server
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Network File System (NFS) provides a file-sharing solution that lets you transfer files between computers running Windows Server and other non-Windows operating systems such as Linux or UNIX using the NFS protocol.
NFS in Windows Server includes Server for NFS and Client for NFS. A computer running Windows Server can use Server for NFS to act as an NFS file server for other non-Windows client computers.
Client for NFS allows a Windows-based computer running Windows Server to access files stored on a non-Windows NFS server.
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Windows Server: Domain Controller and DNS
OS Client: Ubuntu OS, NFS client.
To install the Server for NFS role service in Windows Server, follow the below steps:
1. Open Server Manager. Click on Tools and select Add Role and Features.
2. On the Before you begin page, click Next.
3. Select Role-based or feature-based installation and click Next.
4. Select a server from the server pool on which you want to install the Network File System for Server role service, click Next.
5. On select server roles page, expand File and Storage Services, expand File and iSCSI Services. Select Server for NFS checkbox.
6. A new window will pop up, click on Add Features to include required features and management tools needed by the NFS server.
7. Make sure that the Server for NFS role service is selected. Click Next.
8. On select features, click Next.
9. Click Install and complete the installation process.
10. Click Close to finish the installation.
After installing the Server for NFS on Windows Server, the next step is to create an NFS shared folder by using the File and Storage Services console.
11. On the Server Manager Console, click on File and Storage Services.
12. Click on Shares. Right-click in the empty area and select New Share.
13. On Select the profile for this share, select NFS Share – Quick profile. Click Next.
14. To configure a specific folder as NFS shared folder, select the checkbox Type a custom path and type the path for the specific folder you’d like to set as a shared folder. Click Next.
15. Verify share name, local path and remote path for NFS shared folder. Click Next.
16. Specify the Authentication methods as per your requirement.
17. To set up the NFS share permissions, click Add button.
18. Specify the Hosts you’d like and assign the access permissions from the drop-down menu.
Host: 192.168.10.21 (IP address of Ubuntu VM or Windows 10)
Share Permissions: Read/Write
19. Click on Add.
20. Using the same steps, you can add permission for other Hosts as well. Click Next.
21. Specify NTFS permission. As we are just testing NFS sharing, we are going with default permission. Click Next.
22. Review the selections, click on the Create button.
23. Click on the close button after verifying the successful creation of the NFS shared folder.
24. Verify the NFS shared folder under the shares list. Access the local path of the NFS shared folder. Create one text file and put some text under it.
25. On the Ubuntu machine, verify the local IP address and network connectivity with the NFS server.
26. To mount an NFS share on Linux, open terminal and run: mkdir /data
This command will create one directory name data under the root directory:
mount -t nfs -o mountvers=4 <NFS-Server-IP>:/<NFS-Shared-Folder-Name> /<Mount-Point>
To mount the NFS share share1 from server 192.168.10.1 to /data, follow these steps.
In our case command will look like:
mount -t -o mountvers=4 nfs 192.168.10.1:/share1 /data
apt-get install nfs-common
mount –t nfs -o mountvers=4 192.168.10.1:/share1 /data
28. Verify the content of the text file which we have created earlier on the NFS server.
