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 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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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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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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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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