Services for UNIX Team - Microsoft
This blog talks about configuring Kerberos on Ubuntu for NFS access. NFS is hosted on a 2 node...
Date: 04/07/2014
There are many customer who are still using Service for Unix ( SFU 3.5) in their environment and...
Date: 03/25/2014
One of our customer recently reported issue where setgid/setuid was not working against a NFS share...
Date: 02/27/2014
This article discusses lookup mechanism for netgroups. We have multiple customer coming in with the...
Date: 01/10/2014
IDMU tools is not part of the RSAT installation for Windows 8. There is a documentation error on the...
Date: 10/31/2013
Character translation between Windows to Unix does not working on Windows 2012 with NFS v4.1. For...
Date: 09/16/2013
We have got many issues reported for SUA SDK, where the korn/ C shell crashes. While the C shell...
Date: 09/15/2013
AD primary group (primarygroupID) being sent by the NFS server in case of Kerberos Authentication instead of gidNumber
With Windows 2012, there are multiple options of mapping users and group for NFS access. This has...
Date: 08/06/2013
Redhat client displays nobody/nobody: Configuring IDMAP.CONF on Redhat to resolve the user/group name in NFS v4.1
Finally we have a good new for the users who are looking to map Redhat users and group with Active...
Date: 07/25/2013
Recently while working on an issue where we got an issue where the Users once logged into Linux...
Date: 07/08/2013
While working on a issue recently, we found that there was a difference in behaviour when we restart...
Date: 07/03/2013
Unix Attribute Tab does not show all the UNIX provisioned groups in Primary Group Name ==>GID drop down.
While working on a issue recently, we found that the Unix attribute tab has a GUI limitation on the...
Date: 06/30/2013
Unable to start “Server for NIS” service; “An error occurred accessing the Windows Registry. Error: %1”
Recently we go an issue where the “Server for NIS” service was not starting on Windows...
Date: 05/09/2013
“nismap.exe” does not create the map name as expected when using the –y parameter....
Date: 04/19/2013
RHEL clients displays Anonymous UID and GID in the permission for the files and folder that are shared over NFS v4.1
Consider a scenario where Windows 2012 is hosting shares over NFS v4.1. Adlookup is configured for...
Date: 03/14/2013
Inputs on NFS 4.1 mount: While working on a recent scenario on NFS V4.1, we came across some...
Date: 03/12/2013
This article discuss on the steps required to install IDMU component using DISM on WIndows 2012. You...
Date: 12/11/2012
Recently we got an issue where the NFS server ( Windows 2008 R2 was hosting the NFS share) use to...
Date: 11/14/2012
Recently we got an case where the customer was looking for assistance to run PAX command in Windows...
Date: 11/08/2012
We do get a lots of issue where the customer reports that “Permission ere not getting...
Date: 10/30/2012
While working on a cron job issue, one of the customers wanted to know if they can run the SUA...
Date: 10/25/2012
While working on one of the case, the customer reported that he was unable to access symbolic link...
Date: 10/10/2012
Fatal error (Error code: 0x80070643): Unable to installadd the NFS role services on Windows 2008 R2 server
Recently we got an issue where the customer was unable to install NFS role services on Windows 2008...
Date: 08/06/2012
Recently, we were trying to upgrade WIndows 2003 to WIndows 2008. WHile trying to upgrade, we ran...
Date: 08/03/2012
Recently, we had a case where mapping Unix account through ADlookup was not working. Windows 2008 R2...
Date: 04/23/2012
Recently we got an issue reported, where non admin local user were unable to do RSH from member...
Date: 04/11/2012
Recently we got multiple issues where the SUA performance was getting impacted on multi-processor...
Date: 04/11/2012
Recently we got a case where the explorer window on the Windows NFS client was freezing...
Date: 02/20/2012
Recently we had a case where users from Windows 7, NFS client were unable to access the NFS share....
Date: 02/02/2012
I had discussed on using File Name Translation over NFS here. Some additional information and an...
Date: 01/26/2012
Recently we got a case where the customer was trying to enable the Unix client to change the...
Date: 01/19/2012
The command below can be used on a Korn shell to use the command recall feature using the up arrow...
Date: 01/13/2012
We do get a lot of questions on multiple users mapping between Windows and Unix users. I have tried...
Date: 12/28/2011
Recently we got a case where customer reported that he was unable to install the SUA SDk component...
Date: 12/28/2011
Recently we got a case where customer was unable to run RSH command from Windows RSH client to an...
Date: 12/16/2011
Persistent drive mappings do not work with Client for NFS After SFU 3.5 was shipped, there have been...
Date: 12/08/2011
Recently we got a case where Password changes made for domain users were not getting synced to Unix...
Date: 11/28/2011
We recently got an issue where the Server for NIS service was crashing at a startup. In the...
Date: 11/23/2011
Recently we got a case where customer was unable to access NFS share from Windows 2008 R2, Client...
Date: 11/21/2011
While working on a recent issue, customer reported that running the nfsfile command against a file...
Date: 11/17/2011
The timestamp gets modified to the current system date, while the files are copied from local drive...
Date: 10/14/2011
Lot of times, we get request where customer are looking for having a persistent NFS mapping. Well...
Date: 10/11/2011
Recently we got a case where customer was trying to set up Server for PCNFS on Windows 2008 R2. They...
Date: 10/10/2011
Recently we have a problem with “net use” command on Windows server 2008: We launched a...
Date: 10/03/2011
Recently, after the build conference we installed Windows 8 Developer preview edition here. I was...
Date: 10/03/2011
While working on an access issue on Windows NFS clients, we found out that the ‘dir’...
Date: 09/21/2011
Windows NFS client is known not to handle multiple path NFS shares. The issue is by design and comes...
Date: 09/20/2011
Issue opening files created in Windows EFS directory from UNIX clients over the NFS connection from Windows Server 2008 R2
In recent past, we did have multiple customer reporting issues on files getting corrupted for the...
Date: 09/20/2011