Questions tagged [nfs]
Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a network in a manner similar to how local storage is accessed.
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How do I mount an NFS share in Windows 8?
I have a NAS that I'd like to mount over NFS. It works great on my Mac, but I cannot figure out how to mount this device on Windows 8.
I've searched a bit online, but all the articles seem to apply ...
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Mount Synology NFSv4 export with id mapping
I have a Synology DiskStation (DSM 6.0.2) that exports shared directories via NFSv4. I specified a NFSv4 domain ITET-PHO.
On another Linux machine (Debian Wheezy), I want to mount this export using ...
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What to do with NFS server (UTF-8) and Windows 7?
NFS share is mounted using mount server:/share x: command.
File(cyrillic) "Новый текстовый документ.txt" created with samba share (and using UTF-8) is shown as "Новый текстовый ...
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faster way to mount a remote file system than sshfs?
I have been using sshfs to work remotely, but it is really slow and annoying, particularly when I use eclipse on it.
Is there any faster way to mount the remote file system locally? My no.1 priority ...
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User ID mapping with NFS on Synology NAS
I have a Synology NAS box (running DSM 5.1), and I've exported a directory via NFS. I'm attempting to mount it on my Ubuntu box.
It mostly works fine, but I'm having issues with user and group ...
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How to access NFS share from Windows 7 pro?
Everywhere I see Windows and NFS, there is a mention of some kind of subsystem of unix apps or something like this, but apparently it's not in Windows 7 pro.
So the question is: what can I do to get ...
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Copy remote files on nfs without round-trip
I have a large amout of data (several GB) on a remote drive, that is transparently mounted via nfs. I'd like to copy these files into a subdirectory of where they are already residing, so everything ...
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How to mount NFS export on Mac OS X?
I have FreeBSD (test.local) box configured as NFS server. And I'm trying to mount its NFS sharing form my mac (hhmm.local)
/nfs hhmm.local
/nfs has 777 permission.
And I checked from mac that ...
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How to set identity for Windows client for NFS without identity server?
I am using the Windows 7 NFS client to access a Fedora FC 11 NFS Server. The identity presented by Windows NFS Client to the NFS server can only be set in AD or if running a special identity server ...
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NFS: Network disconnect causes Gnome Nautilus to hang / Jumping progress bars
I mount NFSv4 export via /etc/fstab and mount and use the shared folder in nautilus.
There are two issues:
When I copy a large file (around 4 GB) to the NFS server, the progress bar rapidly goes to ...
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Concurrent NFS access
Similar to Concurrent FTP access.
How is concurrent file access handled for NFS? Say that one client is updating/overwriting a file on a NFS server, and a process on the server is reading that same ...
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How to mount NFS share in Cygwin?
The question Mounting NFS in Cygwin suggests it is possible to directly mount a NFS share (we have a NFS server running on a linux machine) in the Cygwin file system, even though the The Cygwin Mount ...
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Millions of files in a single directory
I need a file storage solution that will provide read/write for files to a collection of web servers. The space demands are modest -- about 2 TiB right now but will probably grow to twice that. NFS ...
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How to restart (or stop or heck even start) the nfs client service on ubuntu 9.10?
The /etc/init.d/nfs-common file has been removed.
There is no NFS service utility.
Any help greatly appreciated.
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NFS /usr/share breaks Policykit beause of inotify support
I just tried moving some files including /usr/share to a NFS partition to save space when running many similar virtual machines. The configuration mostly works except when starting services
I think ...
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NFS from MacOS to Centos in virtualbox
I'm trying to share files from my Mac to a web server hosted in VirtualBox running Centos.
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I've created the file /etc/exports. It has the following line
/Users/jason/projects -alldirs -network ...
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Undeletable file in RedHat Linux
There is a file under my home area that I cannot delete. When I do an ls -al on the directory, the permissions are ?--------- and there is a ? for user, group, size and date columns. When I attempt to ...
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NFS Permission Denied when mounting from WSL
I'm trying to mount a NFS folder in WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04
sudo mount singularity:/srv/Storage /mnt/storage -v
But it gives me an error
mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting singularity:/srv/...
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NFS mount in windows XP [closed]
Does anybody have any experience mounting nfs on win xp?
I know that it works on Win 7 (and it is a new feature).
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How to setup nfs share for users with write permissions
We used ubuntu linux on desktops with ldap authentication. Both on server and clients we have identical users and groups.
I've setup nfs server with public share, which should be available for all ...
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Mounting NFS in Cygwin
I successfully managed to mount an NSF export at a local folder as a mount point. I can type ls and see the remote content. However, I do not see any remote files in Explorer - It is blank.
What am I ...
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How to see connection attempts rejected by firewall in real time?
I am struggling to create an NFS mount from my Mac to a Ubuntu server (the mount works if I do it locally on the server to itself, so I'm confident the issue is network related), and I need to have ...
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How to remove a volume that is linked to a disconnected network drive
I have a disconnected network drive that is linked to a volume (N:). It used to be linked to an NFS share on 127.0.0.1\data (using WinNFSd), but I didn't need it anymore.
I am trying to remove it, ...
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autofs mounts in parent directory
For many years I have a problem with autofs, now. I thought there was a bug in the autofs version in my repository. Unfortunately, even after several system as well as distribution upgrades covering ...
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Changing file and folder ownership from root?
I created a folder structure as root and now need to transfer ownership to an ordinary user.
This question is linked to this one - Providing permission to specific user to access NFS share
I have a ...
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How to Access `/dev` From Inside a `chroot` Jail?
How can one access /dev from within a chroot jail? I'd like to know how to do this on OS X v10.11.5 'El Capitan,' in particular. I've already tried to create an ...
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Add-WindowsFeature FS-NFS-Services "the name was not found"
I have a fresh installation of Windows Server 2012 and need to create a NFS share.
Using these instructions:
PS C:\> Import-Module ServerManager
this works ok - I'm returned to the prompt.
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Can't mount NFS from within WSL2 Ubuntu 22.04
I'm trying to mount an NFS share from within WSL2 running Ubuntu 22.04. This works fine on native Ubuntu. I edit /etc/fstab to add:
172.16.0.113:/mnt/share/yocto-cache /home/tom/cache nfs ...
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Is there a way to create a multipart archive in multiple sessions?
I have a remote machine, where the space is very limited (~15GB free)
I have an NFS share mounted on this VM, the size of the share is ~600GBs.
The NFS share has lightning-fast access from this ...
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Providing permission to specific user to access NFS share
I have two machines between which I need to share a folder.
On server1, I have the user 'appuser' that needs to access (read/write/delete) on this share.
On server2, 'root' accesses this share and ...
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