If I could get autofs/automount to work with CIFS that may be an option. However it looks like credential passing could be an issue; I'll have to look into that.
My concern is that, from reading the technet documents, Win2k8 had pretty bad support for NFS and 2012 claims to have pretty good support. I don't know that I trust Microsoft to go from bad to good in one release, so I'd like to hear some personal stories about using Win2k12 as an NFS server. We currently have a fairly old NetApp (4+ years) and want to replace it with a SAN (maybe Nimble). We need to publish home drives and department shares for a couple dozen Linux users on both their workstations and and about a dozen or so shared servers; and a 10-node HPC cluster but not as the primary/performance storage. One server should be able to handle the load. (If it was a Linux server, and Windows can't be /that/ much worse.) On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Will Dennis <wden...@nec-labs.com> wrote: > Looks like “CIFS” (actually SMB v2/v3) would be your best > share-publishing protocol here… OS X and Linux have good support for this > at this point, and why make Windows Server use a not-as-well supported > protocol if you don’t have to? > > > > If you must use NFS, looks like there is support in the product (don’t > know about 2012R2, but assume the same as 2012…) - > http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2012/09/14/server-for-nfs-in-windows-server-2012.aspx > > > > W. > > > > *From:* tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] > *On Behalf Of *Atom Powers > *Sent:* Monday, May 19, 2014 5:06 PM > *To:* LOPSA Tech > *Subject:* [lopsa-tech] MS Windows as NFS Server? > > > > As an avenue of deprecating a NetApp device we are investigating a > block-only SAN device. That would mean using MS Windows 2012R2 to publish > shares to clients: MS Windows, Mac OSX, Linux. The MS Windows Admins manage > these file shares so Linux w/ Samba isn't an option. > > > > Does anybody have any insight into using MS Windows as a file server for > NFS shares? > > > > -- > Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. > --Atom Powers-- > -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers--
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