Services for UNIX Team - Microsoft
Recently, we have a case where the customer was unable to copy the Password Sync encryption key from...
Author: rohitban Date: 09/20/2011
Renaming a Windows NIS domain name may become essential as default NIS domain that IDMU captures is...
Author: abhisekbasu Date: 09/19/2011
As discussed on my earlier Blog post:...
Author: rohitban Date: 05/27/2011
We do get lot of issues where customer has migrated\upgraded from SFU 3.5 to Windows 2003...
Author: rohitban Date: 05/25/2011
On Windows 2003, SFU 3.5: In SFU 3.5, the default logon type is ‘local system’. We can...
Author: rohitban Date: 05/25/2011
There was an issue in Windows 2008 R2, where the Unix clients were unable to honor the NTFS style of...
Author: rohitban Date: 04/20/2011
Recently we got a case where customer was trying to do a backup of a NFS share using Symantec. He...
Author: rohitban Date: 04/12/2011
We had a scenario where the customer was looking for a option to run the nismap command on a DC...
Author: rohitban Date: 04/06/2011
Recently, we got a case where the customer wanted to programmatically access NFS share using Windows...
Author: rohitban Date: 04/06/2011
Recently we got a case where customer informed that intermittently he is getting access denied error...
Author: rohitban Date: 04/04/2011
Recently we got an issue where the Users from Unix clients were getting permission denied while...
Author: rohitban Date: 04/04/2011
I came across a scenario where mount command was failing when we put it across the Cluster IP /...
Author: abhisekbasu Date: 04/03/2011
Most of the domain controllers running on Windows 2003 and serving purpose of Server for NIS for...
Author: abhisekbasu Date: 04/03/2011
Recently we had an issue where the user from the Unix clients were unable to run the...
Author: rohitban Date: 03/17/2011
We got an issue where customer was running an automated process on the Unix NFS clients that creates...
Author: rohitban Date: 03/07/2011
Recently, we faced couple of issues with Server for NIS. The environment looks like: 2 Windows 2008...
Author: rohitban Date: 02/21/2011
In case you want to setup sendmail on SUA and use your MS Exchange to actually receive the mail and...
Author: abhisekbasu Date: 02/21/2011
Recently we got a case where customer was having issue starting Client for NFS service. It was...
Author: rohitban Date: 02/15/2011
Recently we had a customer, who was having issue binding the HP UNIX client to Windows 2008 R2...
Author: rohitban Date: 02/03/2011
In one of the recent issues reported; members of the administrators group were unable to issue...
Author: abhisekbasu Date: 01/17/2011
I am finally back here J in this year. Recently, I have spent some time to find the steps to install...
Author: abhisekbasu Date: 01/14/2011
Recently we had an issue where User Name Mapping were not working through ADlookup. Initially it...
Author: rohitban Date: 01/12/2011
What registry keys can be modified, if the number of Unix clients are more? We can make the...
Author: rohitban Date: 12/09/2010
Why we are unable to do a persistent mount across logons? Even using the command below to mount NFS...
Author: rohitban Date: 12/09/2010
Why I am unable to change ownership from Windows clients? This is due to the default Unix style...
Author: rohitban Date: 12/09/2010
How can we map users in Windows 2008? In windows 2008\2008 R2, we have the following options: 1....
Author: rohitban Date: 12/09/2010
Unix style permission is bit different from Windows style permission. Files and directories are...
Author: rohitban Date: 10/20/2010
Recently we got a case where customer was having issue fetching the maps from the group and passwd...
Author: rohitban Date: 09/30/2010
Recently we got a case where customer was looking for mapping local users on Windows 2008. The first...
Author: rohitban Date: 09/30/2010
Please find the list of Hotfix for SFU 3.5. For Server for NFS:...
Author: rohitban Date: 09/02/2010
With the advancement in virtualization technologies, there has been an increase in the way shares...
Author: devendra1 Date: 08/24/2010
Please find the list of patch, one need to install to update the Server for NFS related drivers in...
Author: rohitban Date: 08/23/2010
Recently we got a case where customer was getting error while running the tar command with the P...
Author: rohitban Date: 08/20/2010
Recently I faced a scenario where Solaris 10 systems were unable to mount the NFS share from a...
Author: abhisekbasu Date: 08/20/2010
Recently we got a case where customer was unable to access NFS share from Unix client. The share was...
Author: rohitban Date: 08/18/2010
Recently we got a case where customer was sharing files through NFS between Windows and Macintosh....
Author: rohitban Date: 08/13/2010
In my last post; the execution of Win32 commands through RSH was considered. Although the method...
Author: abhisekbasu Date: 08/12/2010
Recently we got a case in which customer was using SFU 3.5 and Server for NIS was installed....
Author: rohitban Date: 08/12/2010
We recently had a query, where customer was trying to configure the following registry key so that...
Author: rohitban Date: 08/06/2010
Very often we get requests to setup environment where client will connect to Windows RSH server and...
Author: abhisekbasu Date: 08/06/2010
Recently we got case where password Sync was not working. Customer had configured password Sync on a...
Author: rohitban Date: 08/03/2010
Consider this scenario: 1. Solaris 10 Sparc is working as NIS Master. 2. We have also, installed the...
Author: abhisekbasu Date: 08/03/2010
Recently we worked on an incident where we trying to execute a command using RSH from Solaris...
Author: rohitban Date: 07/22/2010
Consider this scenario: RHEL is working as a NIS Master server. Windows 2008 R2 box is installed...
Author: abhisekbasu Date: 07/02/2010
Recently noticed, that the SUA SDK installation is not going to the desired page to download the...
Author: abhisekbasu Date: 07/02/2010
Recently we got an issue where running ID command on a Windows 2008 was returning a number different...
Author: rohitban Date: 07/02/2010
Recently we got a issue where customer wanted to start/stop windows service using RSH. The operating...
Author: rohitban Date: 06/22/2010
We were working on a case in which we were unable to install NFS components on Windows 2008....
Author: devendra1 Date: 06/22/2010
We do get cases where the User name mapping information is lost after restarting the Server/User...
Author: rohitban Date: 06/18/2010
We were working on a case in which users were unable to mount NFS share from a UNIX machine on a...
Author: devendra1 Date: 06/18/2010