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Services for UNIX - Interoperability

A blog on Services for UNIX and UNIX Interoperability components in Windows by Ashish

Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications is not affected by Shellshock

Greetings, users of Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA). I'm the technical writer for SUA,...

Date: 09/29/2014

Client for NFS in Windows 8

Client for NFS in Windows 8 Now that it's been RTM'ed - it's time you should know what's new with...

Date: 08/01/2012

SUACommunity.com Closure

SUACommunity.com Closure Last week, I was equally surprised when I received the word that...

Date: 07/06/2010

Proof of Concept: NFS Attributes Editor

Proof of Concept: NFS Attributes Editor We come across a lot of people who have IdMU tools installed...

Date: 06/21/2010

Using Kerberos Authentication for Server for NFS

Using Kerberos Authentication for Server for NFS It has always been attributed that the NFS...

Date: 05/25/2010

Synchronizing SFU Attributes with RFC2307 Attributes

Synchronizing SFU Attributes with RFC2307 Attributes In a very short span of time, I received...

Date: 03/31/2010

SUA SDK for Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2

SUA SDK for Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 The news is not new and you may already be aware that...

Date: 03/23/2010

Managing Client Groups - An Easier Approach

Managing Client Groups - An Easier Approach On UNIX-based NFS servers, it's much easier to control...

Date: 11/12/2009

Using DFS for Centralized Access to Multiple NFS Servers

Using DFS for Centralized Access to Multiple NFS Servers Lately, we have seen customers who are...

Date: 09/11/2009

Getting AD Lookup to work without UNIX Attributes tab

Getting AD Lookup to work without UNIX Attributes tab The previous post talks about how to get the...

Date: 07/16/2009

Using UNIX Attributes tab without installing IdMU

Using UNIX Attributes tab without installing IdMU Starting with the Windows Server 2003 R2 release,...

Date: 07/13/2009

AD Lookup with ADAM/ADLDS

AD Lookup with ADAM/ADLDS With removal of UNM in Vista/W2K8, it became really problematic to map...

Date: 07/10/2009

Removal of technology: Services for Macintosh (SFM)

Removal of technology: Services for Macintosh (SFM) This seems a little strange and SFM is being...

Date: 06/24/2009

Windows 7 SUA SDK

Windows 7 SUA SDK A lot of people have been enquiring about the Windows 7 SUA SDK. There is a lot of...

Date: 06/24/2009

Can I Set Up User Name Mapping in Windows Vista?

Can I Set Up User Name Mapping in Windows Vista? Unfortunately, no if you don't have a SFU 3.5 or...

Date: 03/27/2009

NFS and SUA in Windows 7

NFS and SUA in Windows 7 Finally, the Windows 7 beta is released to the public and we can now...

Date: 01/23/2009

Limitation with Active Directory Lookup feature in Microsoft Services for NFS

Limitation with Active Directory Lookup feature in Microsoft Services for NFS The Active Directory...

Date: 12/15/2008

Set up Services for Network File System in Windows Server 2008

Set up Services for Network File System in Windows Server 2008 The Microsoft Services for NFS...

Date: 12/15/2008

All (well, almost) about Client for NFS - Configuration and Performance

All (well, almost) about Client for NFS - Configuration and Performance I was looking at the...

Date: 04/14/2008

Configuring User Name Mapping - Part 3 (Advanced Mapping)

Configuring User Name Mapping - Part 3 (Advanced Mapping) Simply said - when you map users and...

Date: 01/24/2008

Configuring User Name Mapping - Part 2 (Simple Mapping)

Configuring User Name Mapping - Part 2 (Simple Mapping) Continuing the discussion from Configuring...

Date: 10/02/2007

SFU hot fixes in email

SFU hot fixes in email Like any other Microsoft hot fix, you can also receive SFU hot fixes in your...

Date: 09/06/2007

Update: Windows Server 2003 SP2 breaks SFU

This post discussed about a problem with SFU 3.5 Interix and Password Synchronization components...

Date: 07/11/2007

Configuring User Name Mapping - Part 1

Configuring User Name Mapping - Part 1 On this page, I have put some information about how you can...

Date: 06/05/2007

"Network Error 53", "The data area passed to a system call is too small" or "Unknown Error"

"Network Error 53", "The data area passed to a system call is too small" or "Unknown Error" Client...

Date: 06/04/2007

How User Name Mapping works?

How User Name Mapping works? User Name Mapping is the core NFS authentication component in Services...

Date: 05/11/2007

UNIX Interoperability and Windows Vista

UNIX Interoperability and Windows Vista There was SFU 3.5 Interoperability components. It got ported...

Date: 05/01/2007

Windows Server 2003 SP2 breaks SFU

Windows Server 2003 SP2 breaks SFU We have already seen too many people reporting this - Windows...

Date: 04/27/2007

Set up Server for NFS in Windows Server 2003 R2

Set up Server for NFS in Windows Server 2003 R2 In this post, I will talk about configuring...

Date: 04/19/2007

Using chown/chgrp from UNIX clients

Using chown/chgrp from UNIX clients Why it is still owned by 4294967294? Haven’t I mapped root user...

Date: 04/19/2007

Configuring User Name Mapping

Configuring User Name Mapping We can now mount the share on the Linux client and can also create...

Date: 04/19/2007

Who's 4294967294?

Who's 4294967294? Why is /mnt/nfs owned by something like 4294967294 and why is the group set to the...

Date: 04/19/2007

Mounting NFS share on NFS client

Mounting NFS share on NFS client Now click on OK twice and come out of the folder properties saving...

Date: 04/19/2007

Sharing folders over NFS

Sharing folders over NFS It’s easy – right click on the folder you to share and go to properties on...

Date: 04/19/2007

Introduction and installation of Services for NFS on R2

Introduction and installation of Services for NFS on R2 Following is what makes up Microsoft...

Date: 04/19/2007

GID on NTFS File System

GID on NTFS File System Can you set group on a file or folder on NTFS file system? - No, ugh... Yes....

Date: 04/16/2007

Active Directory Lookup? Or, User Name Mapping? Or Both?

Active Directory Lookup? Or, User Name Mapping? Or Both? User Name Mapping in Windows Server 2003 R2...

Date: 04/13/2007

Services for UNIX vs Windows Server 2003 R2 UNIX Interoperability

Services for UNIX vs Windows Server 2003 R2 UNIX Interoperability Services for UNIX is a software...

Date: 04/12/2007

Welcome to the SFU blog

Welcome to the SFU Blog! I am Ashish, working for the SFU support team at Microsoft. I’ll be talking...

Date: 04/04/2007